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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/18147280
X, the social media platform owned by Trump megadonor Elon Musk, is promoting Trump campaign-curated content to all U.S. users, regardless of whether they have opted out of Trump-related content.
On the platform formerly known as Twitter, banner ads for the Trump campaign donning the #Trump2024 tag appear for all U.S. users, even those who’ve blocked words, topics, and hashtags related to the candidate or his campaign or muted the advertiser.
Additionally, the #MAGA tag displays an edited image of the former president from his attempted assassination and the #Trump2024 hashtag displays an American flag.
It is unclear whether the Trump campaign paid for the images on the #Trump2024 and #MAGA tags, though an advertisement for the tag on the site’s trending page reads “Promoted by Team Trump.” As Mashable noted, it is the first time the platform has enabled the image feature to promote a specific political candidate.
Clicking the Trump2024 tag also prompts American flag graphics to flood the screen.
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All twitter users are Musk’s army, even if they don’t think so.
Remember, if you use xshitter in any way, even to follow your favorite progressive celebrities and complain about the platform and write mean tweets about Elon, you are validating the platform. You are putting money in his pocket so that he can continue to donate $45 million per month to conservative superPACs.
The biggest fear I have for the country is seeing peoples inability to just stop using things that are being enshittified that are completely optional. I get people have to bank and shop for food and such but no one needs to be using social media or streaming or any crappy internet stuff.
This is the argument I always see: “But all my friends and favorite content creators are there!”
Okay, get new online friends, and write to your favorite creators that they should switch to Mastodon. Hell, switch to Bluesky. But every interaction is a bit of data, a bit of engagement, that Elon can show to advertisers to entice them to buy multi-million dollar ad packages.
I stopped using whatsapp because fuck facebook. All my friends are like: yeah, i wish, but everyone i know uses whatsapp. That is a very good argument that i haven’t thought off. Same with twitter people. Oh i totally see how much it must suck if you don’t know what kind shit the rock is trying to sell you.
Twitter is for chumps. I blocked it on my home network along with all the other trash. PFBlocker is great.
I have never heard anything good about Twitter. Just the format of following people instead of topics seems like a narcissistic’s dream.
People used it when they shouldn’t have before Elon and people will continue now.
Some just like shitty systems I guess.
I’ve never had a twitter account. Finally got around to making a Mastodon account and I have no f’ing clue what to do with it.
Same. Made it last week and went. Huh. And bailed back to lemmy. I prefer this type of UI
This is election interference.
How so? It’s a private Nazi website.
Elon Musk is a rich industrialist wanting to install a guy that would serve his interests.
If any private entity spends enough money on a candidate, it’s an election contribution.
Election contributions have legal requirements. Musk / Twitter aren’t complying with those requirements.
Twitter sells enhanced hashtags and placement on the top of the trending list to advertisers. Now they are donating ad slots to Trump.
Of course, the real question is whether or not anything will be done about it. Churches endorse political stuff all the time, and legally they are supposed to lose their tax exemption over it, but as we all know a Church can straight up call for mass murder of LGBT people, and they don’t see any consequences at all…
Nah, you’re forgetting how fucked the US is.
Citizen’s United mean it’s absolutely fine for billionaires to spend as much money as they like supporting geriatric fascists, providing they don’t ask the fascists how they’d like the money spent.
Providing Elon keeps going off half-cocked and making decisions on his own and isn’t following instructions from the trump campaign this is all perfectly legal.
And even if he is acting on orders, how could you ever prove it?
I’m continuously glad that I got out of Twitter the day Elon took over.
I love it when terrible people do terrible things to their own wealth. What I don’t love is how after a certain number of billions, you have an infinite wealth cheat code to fuck around with.
Billionaires get so obvious with crap they want, it reminds me of a toddler that really wants his very own formula one racer or artillery piece or nuclear reactor.
And yeah, if it weren’t so critically deleterious to the rest of us to let him have it, we’d let him pull a Stockton Rush and blow himself up with mad science.
But the rest of us really don’t want to have to clean up after his one party autocracy or suffer through the critical scarcity, the civil war and the holocaust that propagandists will deny for centuries.
When you look upon a billionaire, see them as a bird, trying desperately to feed a cuckoo chick at the cost of their own offspring, only this chick never grows up and flies away, but stays, ever eating, ever growing like a cancer, demanding nourishment forever.
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If you keep using the shitter site, don’t be surprised if you get shit sprayed all over you.
People still use twitter? It’s just a right wing bot cesspool now.
A lot of people on the left think they’re able to throw sand in the gears by tweeting how mean Elon is.
I mean, that’s what got his dumbass to buy it in the first place lol.
lol i thought it was used for p0rn mostly since its X?!
Hopefully this will enrage the users enough to go and actually vote against Trump.
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All this simping for him and Trump just announced he’s going to destroy the EV credits cause EVs are too expensive. Remind me, isn’t oil still to this day subsidized by taxpayers?
That’s not a problem because the oil barons are paying Repub leadership directly.
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Elon: The EV market has soured on me, I’m willing to trade the tax credits for something…
Don: I got just the thing: you can sell SpaceX satellites to the Russians
Elon: Perfect!
sucking sounds resume
#Trump2024 tag appear for all U.S. users
Hahaha! They could have left Xshitter when it was time.
They can still leave Usa while there is time.
Time to leave USA for what? Going to another garbage state that’s also doomed?
They won’t let you out of the land of the free? ;-)
It’s a bit easier to not use a website than it is to leave a country.
So glad I use Lemmy and not Twitter
Wouldn’t this be a great opportunity to flood that hashtag with content that talks about project 2025? Or the Epstein list?
The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
I wouldn’t be surprised if melon husk added a filter for those terms.
You know he has, or at least will eventually, if he’s dumb enough to be a failure at PsyOps 101… which wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest.
He’s already deboosting pro-Ukrainian sources, so I wouldn’t be surprised…
Musk is such a whiny little kunt.
He’s not a cunt, he lacks the warmth and depth. He’s lower than a cunt. He’s a cankle.
Kunt with a K has nothing to do with vaginas, that would be with a C.
This is an all-new concept for me. I thought that was just cutesy censorship. What’s the difference?
A Cunt with a C has generally been a sexist term. And although the word is the same but spelled different, it means, a jerk, an asshole, a dick, a lying fuck, whatever slam you want. It’s not meant to be sexist. Language evolves as does spelling.
