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[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 90 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

“X’s owner now has the ear of the president-elect, a man who has a long history of helping his friends, and punishing his enemies,” said Max Willens, senior analyst, at Emarketer. “Sending at least a trickle of ad spending toward X may be seen as good for business, albeit in an indirect way.”

There's the article in a nutshell. Give Elmo money or face the wrath of the Diaper-in-Chief.

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 44 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Nuh-uh! Americans can't be terrorists cuz Americans kill the terrorist, like Malcolm X and Jamal Khashoggi... Wait, are we the bad guys?

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 points 1 minute ago

Always have been.

[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago

In reality this is just them playing along, if anyone were to do anything drastic to these companies they would have a very bad time.

[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world 102 points 2 hours ago (2 children)
[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 23 points 1 hour ago

And lifting their a## up, so they are better accessible

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world -1 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

It doesn’t work that way with advertising. They need to go where their customers go. Bots don’t buy.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 14 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

They don't need to advertise anywhere.
They're going to twitter for a reason.

“X’s owner now has the ear of the president-elect, a man who has a long history of helping his friends, and punishing his enemies,” said Max Willens, senior analyst, at Emarketer

[–] rezifon@lemmy.world 27 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

This isn’t advertising, it’s tribute.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 1 points 34 minutes ago

It's sending a sacrificial pawn so the tyrant doesn't think of their absence.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

This is beautiful! It's like a textbook example for everyone paying attention to draw crisp conclusions for how the system works.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 29 minutes ago

if people haven't caught that half the shit we ready in the headlines is literally means nothing slop at this point, i don't know man... just take me to the fucking farm already, put me out of my misery

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 1 points 4 minutes ago

It’s time to drop Disney+.

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 61 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

When have Comcast, Disney, or IBM ever have been on the wrong side of history? /s

[–] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 4 points 35 minutes ago

IBM itching to get involved with another genocide. They can track all the undesirables digitally much easier now!

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 21 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

I almost can't blame them. A majority of Americans voted for fascism and racism. These are their customers.

A majority of American citizens who voted...that's an important distinction. Roughly 29% of voting age american citizens and 22% of all american citizens - a sizeable minority but a minority nonetheless - voted for fascism and racism.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 3 points 1 hour ago

The “almost” in this statement is absolutely crucial. Nicely done.

[–] MdRuckus@lemmy.world 30 points 2 hours ago

Horrible timing. Millions are leaving and going to BlueSky.

[–] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 hour ago

They can eat their shit

[–] recapitated@lemmy.world 2 points 41 minutes ago

May as well it's not like they'll be paying for many impressions.

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 14 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Going after the coveted racist bot market.

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 1 points 24 minutes ago

They don't care where the money comes from, and at this point they know there's no cost to their reputation for doing shit like this either.

[–] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 9 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Of course they are they only care about money.

Maybe they dont want to fall out windows. Remember who people voted for.