X is placing ads for Amazon, NBA Mexico, NBCUniversal, and others next to content with white nationalist hashtags::undefined
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Predicted? No. Surprised? Also no
At this point, is there any doubt that destroying Twitter was the entire point?
He could’ve just shut it down at any time. I doubt he planned the destruction of his reputation. He’s gone from tech boy wonder to being widely loathed. It’s hurt his other companies as well but, more personally, it’s so obvious from his posts that he’s desperate to be loved and revered.
He just really sucks. Being surrounded by people who never criticize or challenge him unshockingly doesn’t improve things either.
My understanding is that the SEC would have fucked him if he just shut it down, because it would indicate that he never intended to buy it in the first place and instead was just trying to manipulate the stock market (which is definitely what he was doing).
I hate this meme it just so stupid, it gives him an out for being a shit business man.
Reality is he sucks and wants attention, he also owes money to people it would benefit to have Twitter sow seeds of shit in an election year.
There’s no question that he chose to end “Twitter as it was.”
Did he arrogantly think he could turn it into something better? Yeah he probably did.
Did he deliberately lead a billionaire’s club into a $46 billion boondoggle? Probably not.
Does he really hurt at all, in the end, if that’s what it turns out to be? Sadly, no.
So instead of buying Twitter, not touching it for a year, and then shutting it down because it’s “not profitable” he would rather people think he’s incompetent?
Either he’s an idiot man-child who shouldn’t be allowed to be put in charge of anything, or he wants people to think he’s an idiot man-child who shouldn’t be allowed to be put in charge of anything. Either way I’m happy to oblige.
Really? I think it was much simpler than this. Twitter suspended Elon’s account because of his rants and so he decided to buy twitter to show them who is boss.
This is it. He’s a fucking man child with obscene wealth. It isn’t complicated.
Well, if by “destroying” you mean “turning into a haven for right wing hatespeech”, he was pretty open about that. I don’t know that he understood that connection though.
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“middle”
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Well known far-left person, billionaire Elon Musk
Aye that checks out
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Oh an equally bad take lmao
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I don’t think so. The man is truly stupid.
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I’ve been starting to wonder if Russia has kompromat on him too, and his charge is to just cause general chaos, and yes, as you said, probably eventually shut down Twitter altogether.
This would probably be blowing up more if you could see any of it without creating an account.
I absolutely think there are some things as a species we should not put up with, racial supremacy hate speech being one of them. At the same time, because there is other content out there which some people dislike but which is not harmful, I wish we could stop worrying so much about what content ads are sitting next to.
In this era of highly targeted advertising when companies charge more to put your ads in front of highly specific people groups and demographics, companies like X can easily keep your ads from being associated with white supremacists… they just don’t want to.
X knows it’s popular with these hate groups and they want to monetize them. They’re making money by placing eyeballs on an ad. They’re just hoping no one notices that they’re including hate groups in the eyeballs they’re charging you for. If they can’t display ads to the hate groups then they might actually have to stop allowing the content and they really don’t want to have to do that.
Problem is people don’t have a lot of control over their subconscious perceptions. The subtle ways that they’ll remember two things being side by side and associating the two. This is why brands are careful about what content their ads are shown on.
Yeah I know. I wish our brains were less dumb.
I don’t care what ads appear where but I can understand why companies might not want their brand to be associated with this sort of thing in any way.
Twitter can’t simultaneously be a safe space for racists, sexists, paedos, etc. and civil society.
Okay, but what about people on the fringes? People who want to be able to post about sex positivity, risque artwork, and other stuff that exists in civil society but some people would prefer to pretend didn’t.
Can anyone link the actual tweets? Can only find articles about the tweets
There were screenshots at the article in the link.
Ah didn’t scroll far enough thanks
But I don’t see which one he specifically replied “truth” to or whatever
I believe this is the one you’re referring to (screenshot because it won’t let me see the actual post without an account?): https://twitter.com/DmitryOpines/status/1724918411438805153
Link to actual post he was replying to: https://twitter.com/breakingbaht/status/1724892505647296620
Thanks that’s what I was lookin for
X is soon to be the biggest ad-free social media site! genius!