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X appears to be juicing MrBeast’s views to woo the YouTuber to the platform, pushing video upload into users’ feeds as an unlabeled ad (mashable.com)

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X appears to be juicing MrBeast’s views to woo the YouTuber to the platform, pushing video upload into users’ feeds as an unlabeled ad::undefined

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[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 7 points 10 months ago

For companies, it's free PR. "Mr Beast donates thousands of turkeys for thanksgiving!" - all of the them brought to you by [company], because they really care about you, for realsies!

And, according to some videos, most of his challenges are setup for a specific person to win.

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