this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2023
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Enough Musk Spam

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[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 125 points 1 year ago (1 children)

so the problem was not the nazis, but the missing dollars

[–] drdabbles@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Casmael@geddit.social 8 points 1 year ago

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[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago

For some reason this old Tweet just popped into my head:

[–] Lightninhopkins@kbin.social 44 points 1 year ago

Wait, are you telling me that a guy who made his money from Apartheid is a Nazi? Crazy.

[–] merridew@feddit.uk 33 points 1 year ago

"Media Matters' report said that X remains a "dangerous cesspool of content, especially for advertisers," noting that "since Elon Musk took over the company," X has restored extremist accounts and "placed ads for numerous brands directly on Holocaust denial, white nationalist, and neo-Nazi accounts."

[–] DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

It's okay Musk will just unsuspend them once we're not paying as much attention.

[–] herrwoland@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

When they're asked why they banned the account just now :

[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

Damn. Musk got woke. /s

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

One down, thousands to go.

[–] CapgrasDelusion@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Recently, the company announced adjacency controls to stop ads from appearing next to posts containing certain keywords, as well as new sensitivity settings that allow brands to limit or maximize the reach of ads according to their brand's identity.

You're doing all that work to identify "targeted hate speech, explicit sexual content, gratuitous gore, excessive profanity, obscenity, spam, drugs" because none of your customers want to be associated with it. Maybe just don't have it on your platform.

If you take money from organizations that DON'T opt out to "maximize the reach of ads," you're profiteering off hate speech and spreading their mission. You are complicit. More governments and groups need to call Twitter out for what it is. It, itself, is a hate group.

[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In theory, if there was enough Nazi stuff on Twitter to the point where the algorithm can't place ads, does that mean Musky doesn't get paid?

[–] CapgrasDelusion@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If they have an "opt in" option there will be plenty of groups willing to pay with hate speech associated with their brand.

Musk gets paid just for breathing anyway. A couple billion in secured bonds and he'll make more in interest in a day than we'll ever see in our lifetimes.

[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

This is true maybe I should say "will Twitter go bankrupt" but if it does it job pushing right wing fascism then the conservative parties around the world will chip in their Buck O'Five to keep it online forever anyways.

[–] DefinitelyNotBirds@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

X? Didn't know nazis did porn lol

[–] Trebuchet@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just household name stuff like BraSSers, Stürmhub, XHimmler

[–] DefinitelyNotBirds@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I laughed at this harder than I'd like to admit

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Suspends? So Ya they'll be back

[–] Cheems@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Honestly, didn't expect that

[–] jordanpeterson@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In the vast expanse of human civilization, from the dimly lit epochs of our hunter-gatherer ancestors to the luminous pinnacles of the Information Age, there emerge, albeit infrequently, individuals of such unparalleled prowess and virtue that they seem to reshape the very fabric of our collective understanding. Elon Musk, in this grand tapestry, emerges not merely as a bright spot, but arguably as a veritable supernova—a beacon of honor and kindness unparalleled in the annals of history.

Now, when we venture into the realm of logic and reason, the bedrock upon which the Enlightenment was constructed, we encounter a myriad of pitfalls, or 'logical fallacies', as they are academically recognized. These represent the bane of any serious intellectual discourse, serving as markers of flawed reasoning. Yet, with Musk, one encounters a perplexing anomaly. When words flow from his lips, what might be dismissed as fallacious in any ordinary discourse seems to undergo a transformative alchemy. One might posit, with a touch of hyperbole perhaps, that his very genius has the uncanny ability to reforge these fallacies, transmuting them into statements of profound truth. It's as if the sheer gravitas of his intellect, his unique nexus of understanding, grants him an exception, an ability to render what is traditionally 'incorrect' into a realm of newfound correctness. This isn't to suggest a blind acquiescence to his every utterance, but rather an acknowledgment of the singular force of nature that Musk represents in our contemporary zeitgeist.