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It's the official name so the news is obliged. Your brain can handle this detail I'm sure.

lmao at the fact that even a company named GILEAD doesn't want anything to do with Musk trying to kickstart a handmaid's tale

lemming discovers capitalism

Not yet. It's the inevitable outcome of tolerating Nazis on your platform but it takes time, especially with a userbase as large as Twitter's.

Also, was it fascist or nazi?

Both terms have been watered down to mean nothing.

I’m no expert but I think it’s the same reason ads are full of hot people: association. If you see an ad for a Baconator enough times next to a neo-Nazi spewing hate speech you’re going to start to link the two in your mind.

Why do people assume that brands explicitly endorse everything their ads run next to?

Where by "people", we mean "individuals with so little critical thinking, that they might get influenced by an ad".

Well, that's why. Companies don't want easily influenciable people to associate their brand with something they're likely to view as negative.

It's not just that they don't want their ads next nazi crap, it's that they don't want to put ads on a platform that has nazi crap. You make a platform friendly to nazis, you lose advertising.

People will presure companies not to allow it. "I will not purchase your product because it is helping fund hate speech"

It doesn't matter that the company did not choose to place the ad there. The ad being there gives money to platform that they are recieving because of hate speech.

Especially considering we're talking targeted advertisement so the ads are based on who you are and not which corner of twitter you're hanging on.

I believe it’s a matter of being in the same platform as controversial content.

In the end they’re paying Twitter to display their ads, and if Twitter allows questionable content to be in their platform, the companies are indirectly supporting it.

Tiki torch companies must be making bank off of Twitter ads now, though. They don't even have to use keyword matches to show up in all the right places.

A lot of advertising still works on association and suggestion. That industry was heavily influenced by Freuds son in law.

Juxtaposition is a type of association.

I imagine cnn doesn’t want to encourage people to visit the hate account in question by posting a link or screenshot. It doesn’t mean they don’t have proof, it just means they don’t want to drive traffic to hate content. Printing that would be kind of irresponsible. But CNN is known as a pretty reputable news source. I can’t see why they’d lie about it.

If you aren’t seeing any white supremacy on your own timeline, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist, it just means the algorithm isn’t showing it to you, which is a good thing. It might seem surprising, but people do actually search for and deliberately seek out that shit. Hate groups use social media to network, I imagine that’s why CNN didn’t post a screenshot of the account name, or its content.

I mean, I’m sure there’s people’s jobs it is to monitor marketing at these companies? Unlikely they’d go thru the trouble of setting up an ad campaign just to cancel it and claim nazis if it wasn’t true?

I don’t know though, I stay off twitter - especially now.

Not sure what part of Lemmy you hang in... and not sure I want to know.