At least two brands have said they will suspend advertising on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, after their ads and those of other companies were run on an account promoting fascism. The issue came less than a week after X CEO Linda Yaccarino publicly affirmed the company’s commitment to brand safety for advertisers.
Ads for brands including Adobe, Gilead Sciences, the University of Maryland’s football team, New York University Langone Hospital and NCTA-The Internet and Television Association were run alongside tweets from the account that had garnered hundreds of thousands of views, CNN observed.
Spokespeople for NCTA and pharmaceutical company Gilead said that they immediately paused their ad spending on X after CNN flagged their ads on the pro-Nazi account.
“Paused” 🤣
Just gotta let the smoke blow over then it’s business as usual.
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Here comes the waterworks from the alt-right fanboys
You mean just like placed next to regular Twitter content?
Bro, you better check your privilege and stop deadnaming X
The only socially acceptable deadnaming
I hope you have that same energy for actual human beings and aren’t just deepthroating corporation boot.
I hope you have that same energy for actual human beings and aren’t just deepthroating corporation boot.
It’s a joke. And it’s funny.
It’s a Nazi bar now.
NCTA and Gilead are an evil organization and an evil corporation. They should feel right at home with the Nazis.
But being honest is bad for business. Need to keep the beard on.
You mean they appeared on Twitter?
X, you mean. It’s the core of a swastika.
I couldn’t help but catch the line that
Ads for brands including Adobe, Gilead Sciences, the University of Maryland’s football team, New York University Langone Hospital and NCTA-The Internet and Television Association were run alongside tweets from the account that had garnered hundreds of thousands of views, CNN observed.
And there’s literally an entire black market of veterinarians recommending a very specific antiviral to cat parents unfortunate enough to have their cats be among the 1% of the global cat population whose mutation of feline enteric coronavirus (FECV) to feline coronavirus (FCoV) brings about Feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), and that specific life-saving treatment is behind Gilead Sciences’ refusal to release their patent to veterinary use…
This dumpster fire keeps getting hotter and hotter.
Just like the climate and oceans.
I wonder if it’s all linked in the multiverse?
🤣🤣
When the platform you are on can’t seem to figure out its own brand, maybe it is time to move on?
Two groups of “people” who deserve each other soulless brands and elon.
Don’t worry Linda Yaccarino will sort it all out
FWIW, the Nazi account has now been suspended.
Was it really nazi, or was it “nazi”? What did they post?
So, only mildly nazism. Damn news media always exaggerating everything.
Yeah, but Twitter is just a nazi safe haven under Musk. Elon Musk and Tesla have no problem associating themselves with nazis.
Who would imagine Nazis in electric vehicles was the future. Fun fact nazis were early adopters of the vegan lifestyle.
Well considering BMW and Mercedes were once war manufacturers for the OG Nazis and are now breaking into the EV market…I’d say it wouldn’t be too much of a stretch of the imagination.
In that time 500 were created
this surprises no one whos been paying any attention
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The only surefire way for these company to control what their content appears next to is to rely on themselves. I expect them to start experimenting with the Fediverse, especially Mastodon, soon.
… Shitposting on Lemmy is still superior for organic marketing though, especially for movies.
I’m defedding from brands.social on day 1
They actually hire companies like Double Verify, an Israeli company, who man in the middle the ad and figure out where it is showing up.
Disney doesn’t want their ads on porn sites, and pays a lot to keep it that way.
How about a disclaimer for companies like people have when they play online. “Statements and opinions made by users do not reflect those of X” ESRB for ad companies to get it.
Why?
These companies don’t have to do business with twitter.
Now because their logo was next to some Nazi shit when they were promised it wouldn’t be, they are pulling their dollars because of broken promises.
if there is one thing you can count on from Musk, its broken promises
Because it’s annoying when a lot of good shit goes to dog shit when ad companies get involved with the creative side of things. Just have it in the contract up front if it’s not already and they can agree to be on the platform all in or all out.
Who said the ad companies are making it go to dog shit by not wanting to be seen next to fascist content?
How about no.
