At least two brands have said they will suspend advertising on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, after their ads and those of other companies were run on an account promoting fascism. The issue came less than a week after X CEO Linda Yaccarino publicly affirmed the company’s commitment to brand safety for advertisers.
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“Paused” 🤣
Just gotta let the smoke blow over then it’s business as usual.
Fuck Adobe and their greedy CEO.
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Go back and re-read my comment. I didn’t say any of that shit. I just hate Adobe. Though I can play the same game you’re playing:
Wow, marmo7ade thinks Twitter should be hosting Nazi content! Let’s get this Nazi banned!
NCTA and Gilead are an evil organization and an evil corporation. They should feel right at home with the Nazis.
But being honest is bad for business. Need to keep the beard on.
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I’m not saying that at all. I’m just saying like follows like. They should enjoy being associated with fascists.
Apple still advertises on Twitter. We need a website that tracks all of these companies that still advertise on that pro-nazi platform.
It would be funny if they were all the same ones that supported Adolf
Someone needs to edit their new “logo” and add four lines at the extremities, just to see what it would look like.
Edit: Fashtag freeze peach
Hey don’t deface the X.org logo like that!
It doesn’t look as good as you would think. The spacing between the lines in the “X” logo aren’t evenly distributed, which means the added lines aren’t spaced properly either.
Take my word on it, the end result looks more like a dancing cactus than a specific symbol used during World War II.
That would not be the result I expected but a sort of “Pampa X” sounds way cooler anyway hehe.
I’m glad companies are pulling out of X but I’ve never understood this reasoning for removing your ads tbh.
Every single person who sees your ad knows that it has just been served by the website and has nothing to do with the post/content or author.
Like on youtube, why do companies not wanna advertise on a video with cussing? We all know that the language used in the video has nothing to do with the ad playing before.
Some people just don’t want any kind of association with nazis…
It’s more surprising some people don’t understand that
I think you’re overestimating the technical knowledge of a broad portion of the population : D
The iintellect of an average person is horribly low. Critical thinking is almost non-existant.
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Haha, I’m sure glad I’m not one of those average people.
Nazis were very stupid people. Conservatives in Germany in the 30s were appalled at these chicken farmer bumpkins trying to tell them about what true German values were. They oozed of anti-intellectualism and refused to educate or read. Which is how these morons invaded Russia in winter.
Association is unavoidable regardless of logic since it is an emotional response. Much like disliking a certain food you associate with a person that was mean to you. Marketing is a Social Science not a Technical one.
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Why are you assuming that all people know that?
Two groups of “people” who deserve each other soulless brands and elon.
This dumpster fire keeps getting hotter and hotter.
FWIW, the Nazi account has now been suspended.
Don’t worry Linda Yaccarino will sort it all out
Before or after she finds the glass cliff?
How about a disclaimer for companies like people have when they play online. “Statements and opinions made by users do not reflect those of X” ESRB for ad companies to get it.
Something like that is already in law as a kind of default. Companies are not responsible for the content posted by their users on the basis that no entity could possibly police that much content, with two exceptions:
-Content must be removed if it is illegal and has been specifically pointed out by appropriate authorities for removal.
-If an organisation willingly polices their own content in any way then they also take on responsibility for it.
The only surefire way for these company to control what their content appears next to is to rely on themselves. I expect them to start experimenting with the Fediverse, especially Mastodon, soon.
… Shitposting on Lemmy is still superior for organic marketing though, especially for movies.
I’m defedding from brands.social on day 1
The BBC are trying a 6 month experiment of moving their Twitter style social media over to their own Mastodon server.
Glad they suspended their advertising. A good decision.
Make Twitter Ban Again
