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X is placing ads for Amazon, NBA Mexico, NBCUniversal, and others next to content with white nationalist hashtags (www.mediamatters.org)

submitted 11 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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X is placing ads for Amazon, NBA Mexico, NBCUniversal, and others next to content with white nationalist hashtags::undefined

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[–] 1714alpha@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Good. Now the companies in question can object to being advertised alongside hate speech, drop their funding, and create pressure for Musk to clean up the hateful accounts and hashtags that are forming an ever-thickening layer of scum on the surface of the Twitter pond. Or, you know, just hasten the merciful demise of this shitty platform.

Either way, the problem is the hate speech being allowed in the first place, not the hamfisted advertising strategy being peddled alongside it.

[–] Feirdro@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Or it normalizes white supremacy. But I hope most of these huge companies know which side their worker bread is buttered on.