So the Superbowl advertisers on Twitter found all of their ads being run in the account feeds of racists and hate promoters -- including those Musk let back onto Twitter.
Super Bowl Advertisers Come Face to Face with Musk's 'Hellscape'
https://www.freepress.net/blog/super-bowl-advertisers-come-face-face-musks-hellscape
New research by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) offers the latest chapter in the rapid demise of Elon Musk’s Twitter: Major advertisers — including those featured during the Super Bowl — are paying the social network millions of dollars to drag their brands through the platform’s toxic sludge.
The research features screen grabs of instances where Twitter has displayed ads from brands including Amazon, Apple TV, Merrill Lynch, the NFL and Prime Video next to tweets from self-proclaimed neo-Nazis and others known for publishing hateful content and dangerous conspiracy theories. It’s a rogues’ gallery that includes misogynist and suspected sex-trafficker Andrew Tate, white supremacist Andrew Anglin, disinformation website Gateway Pundit and COVID conspiracy theorist Rogan O’Handley (aka “DC Draino”).
Musk reinstated each of the 10 inflammatory accounts that CCDH surveyed after he took control of Twitter last fall — even though each had previously committed multiple gross violations of Twitter policies designed to protect users from the spread of hate and disinformation.
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Twitter is running ads next to tweets from Holocaust deniers
Two reports this week outline how the company is profiting from ads placed next to content from toxic and hateful accounts.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/10/...-holocaust-deniers-media-matters-report-study
Twitter is running ads for companies including Nokia,
The Wall Street Journal, and Mailchimp alongside tweets from Holocaust deniers, according to
a report by nonprofit watchdog group Media Matters for America.
Media Matters reviewed five Twitter accounts belonging to neo-Nazis, antisemites, and Holocaust deniers and found that ads for prominent companies were being slotted next to tweets from the accounts. The reach of the five Twitter accounts, which include writers, a “pseudo-academic organization,” and white nationalist YouTubers, ranges from a couple thousand followers to tens of thousand.
All five of the accounts are subscribed to Twitter Blue, the subscription service that’s become one of Elon Musk’s main priorities since taking over the company. Earlier this month, Musk tweeted that Blue subscribers would
get a cut of the revenue for ads placed beneath their tweets.
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