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Thursday on X (Twitter), all users saw the same pinned topic under the "What's happening?" sidebar. As part of a "timeline takeover" -- which gives

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Thursday on X (Twitter), all users saw the same pinned topic under the “What’s happening?” sidebar. As part of a “timeline takeover” — which gives advertisers “priority access to logged-in users’ first impression of the day” — conservative media nonprofit PragerU is promoting the hashtag “#DETRANS” to advertise its new film about “the stories of detransitioners.”

    • SmoochyPit@beehaw.orgEnglish
      10·
      11 months ago

      Agreed, but unfortunately too many creators rely on it and can’t uproot and leave. That’s my biggest loss, moving to other platforms, was specific creators who didn’t.

      • davehtaylor@beehaw.org
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        11 months ago

        The problem is that now you’re relying on a platform that’s entirely centered around being a bastion of hate speech. You would be doing the same thing if you based yourself on 4chan or Truth Social. Every moment you stay there and drive traffic through there, you have blood on your hands

  • kosure@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    It’s grim. Obviously twitter still holds sway over a lot of people. And spreading malinformed propaganda is bad.

    But it really underlines that anyone with any conscience whatsoever needs to disengage from it. It’s not okay for governments to engage with it. And though I don’t suggest that capital cares has any sort of conscience, but engaging with it has been increasing in cost and decreasing in benefit. NPR recently left, for example, and saw nearly no impact whatsoever. So the cost of leaving is low.

    Ideally people would deny it any money, advertising or otherwise, until it ceases functioning. I suspect Musk will continue to be a delusional asshole for years to come. But at least twitter will be dead and gone.

  • unmagical@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    X (formerly Twitter; pronounced “ten”) seems to have no floor in how low they’ll go.

    • nevernevermore@kbin.social
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      11 months ago

      pronounced “ten”

      Is this real? Is his child whose name is also X pronounced that way? Dude needs to stop naming things that you can’t pronounce by reading them.

      also did he bother to change the verb tweet? Or is the brand change as half assed as he is?

      • unmagical@lemmy.ml
        5·
        11 months ago

        Officially, probably not. But it would get under Elongated Muskrat’s skin so much if “ten” gained popularity over the “ex”.com he has been trying (and failing) his whole life to popularize.

      • Auzy@beehaw.org
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        11 months ago

        I actually think its more than that… He’s seen how bigotry managed to empower Trump’s audience. Now it feels like a power grab

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    PragerU, which is not a university, aims to “preserve American ideals.” The organization has been criticized for doubting climate change and downplaying the realities of slavery.

    “PragerU has chosen X/Twitter specifically for this campaign, as it is one of the least censored social media platforms,” the organization wrote in a press release.

    PragerU calls the short documentary its “most important” video yet, but extensive research shows that detransitioning is incredibly uncommon.

    In spite of research indicating that these procedures are often life-saving and rarely result in regret, right-wing figures continue to drum up panic around gender-affirming care for LGBTQ+ people.

    X CEO Linda Yaccarino claims that the company will be profitable by 2024, but other evidence shows that the platform’s advertising business continues to suffer.

    As recently as this week, Musk has posted that he believes the word “cis” is a “heterosexual slur,” a personal position that reflects changes made to the company’s content moderation policies under his leadership.

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