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The Washington Post Will Pause Its Advertising on X::undefined

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[โ€“] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

By what logic does advertisers leaving incentivize users to stop going there aswell?

[โ€“] GeneralVincent@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Because it's not all advertisers leaving, there will still be ads just from less scrupulous companies. And because Elon is pushing the site to be more right wing, probably more right wing advertisers. Some users won't like that