All these news about X going to shit feels like that gif of the truck driving towards the pole but constantly cutting before the impact
this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2023
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This one?
I watched two ads just to get rickrolled.
This comment made my Internet today. 🏆
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How dare you. No, this one. (Really, though. It's been a while and I wanted to see it again, happy to be of service.)
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Exactly! That's exactly how it feels!
Musk has continued to place his personal proclivity for right-wing content and influencers over brand – and really overall user – safety. For example, last month, Musk personally intervened to restore a right-wing influencer's account after they were suspended for posting photos of child exploitation.
Tells you everything you need to know.
- Buy unprofitable application
- Make a series of incredibly shit business decisions
- It's now less profitable than before.
- ???
- ???
- Profit
Hold on, maybe I've figured it out. Endless magical profits, here I come!
Step 4. Be ultra-wealthy. (Bonus for not paying taxes.) Step 5. Do anything. (Bonus for pretending it's profitable.)
How to kill a company in 3 easy steps
Feels more like a 300 cuts
How to kill a company in 300 easy cuts
Can't see any company, let alone something family friendly being remotely okay with any of this. Who wants to pay to be right next to Nazi content besides maybe MyPillow?
It’s amazing there are still so many brands and social media strategists who seem in denial about what’s happening even as they watch their customer engagement on Twitter/X evaporate before their very eyes.
shouldn't have fired the brand safety team
I mean, in all reality, this could be why he fired the brand safety team. He's had aspirations of burying himself with X for decades.
Yea see... they (corporations) prefer their money is made next to white supremacy less loudly. That's all.
That's why they just suspended ads, not terminated ad buying.
Furthermore, one organization that had ads placed on this content claimed that it wasn't an X advertiser at all. In a statement provided to CNN, University of Maryland’s associate athletic director told the outlet that Maryland Football hasn't run a paid ad campaign on X since 2021.
Interesting snippet. It would be very interesting to know how and why that happened.
If a small portion of ads keep repeating, it'd show the shallow pool of advertisers left on the website.
That or there's no one at the helm for advertising.
Either way, looks incredibly shabby.
Are there legal implications for this? Is X guilty of misrepresentation or any such related case.
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Is this news to anyone? Elon Musk is a literal Nazi. Every dollar going there supports fascism. I don't get how you can have such a high profile person who is like "Hey, I'm a Nazi, and I sell Nazi shit!" and still be surprised.
I mean, I get that he's a dick, but a nazi? Seriously?
He's not a Nazi, just someone who allows Nazis on his website, reposts and agrees with their beliefs.
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That's what happens when you hang out at a Nazi bar...
We don't fucking want them on lemmy either
The glory of instances. If enough people dont like it, they can just block it!
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He wanted free speech with no censorship. I get it, but he also wants to make a profit. So this is was happens, I hope him and the almighty shareholders are ok with it.
It seems very charitable to say he sincerly cares about free speech given his hindering and sliencing of others.
I am still entirely convinced that the only reason he bought Twitter in the first place is because of this: https://www.businessinsider.com/student-who-tracks-elon-musk-jet-launching-own-website-2023-2
Personally I think he was attempting a pump and dump and got caught out by the market downturn that hit just after he brought in.
He never cared about free speech, he only cared about HIS free speech
Well - 79% of 'the almighty shareholders' is Elon Musk, and I somehow get the impression that as long as he is convinced that he's doing exactly the right things nothing will change. The next biggest stakeholders are Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal (5.7%), Oracle founder Larry Ellison (3.0%), Jack Dorsey (3.0%), Sequoia Capital (2.4%), and Vy Capital (2.1%) - and they've all been publicly silent on the topic of twitter self destruction - I think they've transitioned into train-wreck mode where they are in such disbelief about what they are witnessing that they aren't able to articulate opinions about it.
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And no one but Musk is the least bit surprised by the catastrophic failure of Twitter.
Wrestle with pigs, get covered in shit, or something like that.
But but but there were good people on both sides Disney!
Does anybody else have a feeling like it’s a New Coke situation?
Drive it into the ground, then a year later come back with a shadow CEO and say “We’re back and better than ever”…profit.
How is that supposed to work?
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Bwahahaha between x and trump I’m entertained.
chef’s kiss
This comes as no surprise really. I noticed a marked increase in right wing insanity after Elon took over.
Why do brands care so much what their ads appear next to? Its not like people associate the ads with the content.
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