Twitter Runs Ads for Disney, Microsoft, and the NBA Next to Neo-Nazi Propaganda
Twitter Runs Ads for Disney, Microsoft, and the NBA Next to Neo-Nazi Propaganda
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Twitter Runs Ads for Disney, Microsoft, NBA Alongside Neo-Nazi Videos
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I don't understand why journalists continue to call users with the blue check-mark "verified". There's no verification of anything but a credit card. Verification is a relic of the past and they need to shift their language to match reality. Maybe call them "paid" users.
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Yeah verified actually had some weight in the past.
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Advertisers need to see more articles like this. Pulling the ad dollars away from Twitter is the last lever anyone has to try to change it, and it should have happened long ago at this point.
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That was clear to me when Musk unbanned the Neo-Nazis and there was many articles about it like: https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/02/elon-musk-nazis-kanye-twitter-andrew-anglin/?guccounter=1
So, seeing as even I could predict that 6 months ago, why the fuck are these companies still running ads there? Do they want this?
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As always, it's fine as long as no one points it out.
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I guess ads are more effective on easily brainwashed people, so it's good for business. they want business not feel-good morals...
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Do they want this?
Apparently they have no issues with nazis, but the moment you mention a minor slur in a youtube video you will be demonetized into oblivion, and don't even try showing some skin or they will call the FBI.
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They demonetize the slightest thing because that way they don't need to pay anyone for the money they make...
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Twitter must be held responsible for the kind of Nazi content its allowing on their site.
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They are. People are leaving in droves. Advertisers are abandoning the site.
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I mean, Walt Disney might not have actually minded this.
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Don't the ads just run automatically on content? It's not like they're hand picking these as targeted ads for people who enjoy neo-nazi propaganda.
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Most ads are targeted these days. You tell which user profiles to run ads to.
Also appearing next to controversial content is brand damage for these companies. They try to avoid it as much as possible.
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At this point, still using Twitter is like being on Reddit, I can’t say which one is worse.
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Much as I hate jailbait hufflepuffman, twitter's worse.
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I mean Reddit isn't a predominantly right wing platform (yet)
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Someone should take screenshots and put them on the internet. It will scare Microsoft and others into not running ads on Twitter.
Exactly. I don’t get the mentality of not running ads in a YouTube video where someone said „fuck“ but being completely fine with running your ads on twitter.
I mean just checking the feed these days is incredibly toxic. Seems like only people of a certain mindset kept sticking around.