X, the social media platform owned by Trump megadonor Elon Musk, is promoting Trump campaign-curated content to all U.S. users, regardless of whether they have opted out of Trump-related content.
On the platform formerly known as Twitter, banner ads for the Trump campaign donning the #Trump2024 tag appear for all U.S. users, even those who’ve blocked words, topics, and hashtags related to the candidate or his campaign or muted the advertiser.
Additionally, the #MAGA tag displays an edited image of the former president from his attempted assassination and the #Trump2024 hashtag displays an American flag.
It is unclear whether the Trump campaign paid for the images on the #Trump2024 and #MAGA tags, though an advertisement for the tag on the site’s trending page reads “Promoted by Team Trump.” As Mashable noted, it is the first time the platform has enabled the image feature to promote a specific political candidate.
Clicking the Trump2024 tag also prompts American flag graphics to flood the screen.
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I’m willing to bet that Elon donated the money to be kicked back to Twitter in order to fraudulently make it look like revenue was improving.
Damn that’s so obvious too. Like their whole best seller book scam. You’re probably right.
This is SOP in silicon valley so I’m sure you’re correct.
for a bloke who likes to accuse people of being paedophiles, he sure is simping hard for an actual pedo
It’s all about projection.
Maybe this will make people finally stop using the site for good. But I doubt it.
Who wants to see a child rapist every time you go to their site?
Isn’t that illegal in some way?
Does this represent a taxable benefit for Trump’s campaign?
Honestly? If you’re still on Twitter at this point, that’s on you.
But I need it for my ________. There are simply no alternatives.
That’s what they say.
Then your _________ is a cancer and needs to fail.
For certain content there really is no alternative. One example would be gaming, almost no studios/developers are on Mastadon.
I do have a gaming-focused Mastadon account and I do use it, but it’s not really comparable.
Write to their social media manager and ask them to mirror their content on a mastadon account so their community can grow with those that no longer use twitter.
I actually did try that twice (in a context where they would have more motivation than a typical dev/studio), no luck.
Don’t get me wrong, I do think we have to move of corporate social networking systems. I started actively using Lemmy about two months ago and I am enjoying it. However, we do have to be realistic about the state of the market.
Oh no, what ever would we do without the tweets from game developers? How How will clickbait articles survive? On the plus side, they’d get a lot less death threats for updates to their games. And we wouldn’t have a new news article for every fucking tweet that gets made.
I see where you are coming from (even if you are being a bit glib), but the reality is such that the vast majority will go with the flow.
And trust me, my hate for Musk is way more than you can imagine. This is serious stuff.
Are you still using Twitter?
Yes, I do.
My national background and the current situation in my country makes Twitter an important source of information (I follow local news sites as well).
I used the gaming as an example as a more neutral topic of conversation.
Then you are part of the problem.
the reality is such that the vast majority will go with the flow
This also works the other way though - once a critical mass moves elsewhere, the mob is quick to follow. I would encourage you to be part of that early snowball that starts the avalanche - be the change.
I already mentioned that I do use Mastadon. You’re preaching to the choir.
Indies use twitter to create buzz. Be snide all you like but that’s a big deal for those people.
Like it or not, Twitter is still the de-facto place for breaking news stories. You just have to sift through the dross.
As much as Mastodon is a far nicer and healthier social platform, it has a long way to go before it gets anywhere close in this particular regard.
I totally get the sentiment… But there are people that I can’t get anywhere else… mostly my local police, fire department, and local govt are only on xitter… Also heavily use for the national weather service, but if drumpy wins that will be going away.
The last couple days I’ve been investigating if any of those are on threads, so I can try find a way to follow them mastodon… But doubt they have their accounts enabled for the fediverse… But I’d also have to migrate my mastodon account to an instance that hasn’t de-federated threads…
mostly my local police, fire department, and local govt are only on xitter
The thing is, they are there because the users are there. After all, they want to reach the most people with their important official messaging.
You have to leave to make them leave.
If you still have a Twitter account, you are a piece of shit. That goes for everyone of you
A bit harsh I think
Nah it’s fine
Is it? I don’t think anyone gets a pass on supporting a nazi.
OMG A GUY IS DONATING MONEY TO A POLTICAL CANDIDATE!!!
You know very well that musk is not just “a guy”, he is ultrarich and is using his money to get more money, no matter the cost to the rest of the world.
You know very well that the amount musk promises to donate monthly is more money than most people will see in their entire lifetime - including you.
You know very well that trump is not just a political candidate. He is a fascist piece of shit and has already stated that he will be a dictator.
Why do you simp for these fuckers? They wouldn’t bother to piss on you if you were on fire.
You know very well that trump is not just a political candidate. He is a fascist piece of shit and has already stated that he will be a dictator.
Annnnnd this is where you go off the rail.
I simp for the truth and consistency. Elon is just another billionaire that is influencing things, the only reason you care about what he is doing is because your team tells you to care. You guys used to like elon, but since he left the circle jerk he is the enemy. You should like a troll billionaire but you cant get past the agenda.
None of the statements I made are wrong.
Did you not pay attention when trump said he’d be a dictator on day one? Or are you just ignoring that easily verifiable fact?
Will you be disappointed if he doesn’t behave like a proper dictator on day one, considering your love for truth and consistency?
What were the two things he listed after he said he was going to be dictator on day one?
The issue is that they are misleading you with lying facts. For example if I said “A person is YY times more likely to die in a hospital than at the grocery store”, that would be true but its misleading to believe that if I go to the hospital I am more likely to die than at the grocery store.
It’s really not.
Damn I just got back from twitter… It really changed in the past month it’s all political stuff and I never used twitter to research politics I’m not even American I’m a Canuck but maybe that is close enough.
Moral of the story: I agree with you
It really has changed. I noticed it a few months back. Subtle rightwing and like, morbid “shock” content and even some animal abuse started popping up more and more. I just gradually started using it less and less, it was pretty obvious what was going on.
i got rid of mine shortly after he officially owned it but i used to follow a lot of certain people on nitter for a long time but the past year or so ive even been doing that less and less because i don’t care about it anymore
I still have a Twitter account. I mostly watch the cess pit argue with each other and to keep up with the latest misinformation.
But even that is growing tiresome.
Most of the world doesn’t know or care about US politics. X is a hellish platform though that does crack on pro-Palestinian users.
If you don’t care about US politics then don’t use an American Nazi’s website
Way ahead of you. I got banned from Twitter before Elon even bought it for a joke on the biased representation of Arabs in media. It has gotten worse since then.
I don’t ever use it to think to delete it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Woah who woulda seen this coming? Free speech, politically centered Elon Musk of all people? Crazy!
I don’t think anyone truly believes that anymore. He’s been mask off dirtbag for awhile now.
I can hear the internal justifications of the “journalists” still using the platform.
A major Danish news site recently said they’d delete their accounts on Twitter :)
Although no plans for making a Mastodon account instead :(
What platform are journalists supposed to be using when almost all of them seem to be biased?
Any platform that doesn’t openly advertise (and have an opener who openly donates to the campaign of) one particular candidate. I would not expect to find any self respecting journalist to have an account on Truth Social for instance. Being on either platform directly contributes to the election campaign of Donald Trump.
Which platform would that be? I am not trying to be difficult, but I think probably all platforms are heavily biased.
X/Twitter
Then why dont you like it?
There is a point in every cult where the leader increases restrictions and demands purity. What this does is eliminate the free thinking people by forcing them to chose. The more you impose these restrictions the crazier they get targeting only the most devote and the most codependent people.
What you end up with is an army of sycophants that will die before they leave the cult. Twitter will be the largest imposition of this strategy on a targeted group of people that i can think of. It’s time to start being afraid of the cult of elon.
It’s time to start being afraid of the cult of elon.
He’s said he’s going to donate $45m per month to Trump until November. It’s becoming very clear he bought out Twitter to suppress free communication of people.
He sees which way the wind is blowing and is hoping he can help install Dictator-for-a-day Trump who’ll deregulate every industry and cut every tax that might apply to him.
Maybe it’s time to stop drinking at the nazi bar.
Mastodon/Bluesky > Birdsite. Always.
I’d say the / should be a > but agreed.
I have no idea why people just jumped to another billionaire owned walled garden when Mastodon is sitting right there.
People would cut their arm off of the marketing was good enough.
So the whole Twitter acquisition hullabaloo was all about electing more tax breaks after all wasn’t it. And here I was thinking it was perhaps about the ability to do some more sophisticated propaganda or just because of Elon’s pure stupidity.
You’re giving him too much credit. Influencing elections is an incidental benefit to the real purpose. Which is that now Elon gets to ban anyone who disagrees with him on Twitter.
So is Elon Musk paying himself for these ads? What are the implications around that ideology? If he’s donating 34 mill a month and that all is going to Twitter for this…
Wouldn’t the value of this advertising be a direct campaign contribution that could violate campaign finance laws?
That’s kinda what I’m playing at. The whole things stinks. Essentially a way for him to project Twitters advertising as bumping back in a big way cause of all the “campaign funds” funneling back into Twitter. So paying himself maybe isn’t the right wording but I think it nails the context of what I mean. Edit: spelling.
“Paying for these adds” lol he owns the platform, sure he’ll probably get some mega donation tax breaks but like all he has to do is flip a couple bits, which is pretty damn cheal
I think they mean paying for these ads in the “creative” bookkeeping way.
this is forcing
