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submitted 1 year ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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.

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[-] MicroWave@lemmy.world 123 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] alienanimals@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Fuck Adobe and their greedy CEO.

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[-] mojo@lemm.ee 63 points 1 year ago

You mean just like placed next to regular Twitter content?

[-] sndmn@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 year ago

It's a Nazi bar now.

[-] negativeyoda@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

Bro, you better check your privilege and stop deadnaming X

[-] OtakuAltair@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago

The only socially acceptable deadnaming

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 59 points 1 year ago

NCTA and Gilead are an evil organization and an evil corporation. They should feel right at home with the Nazis.

[-] TigrisMorte@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago

But being honest is bad for business. Need to keep the beard on.

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[-] febra@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago

Apple still advertises on Twitter. We need a website that tracks all of these companies that still advertise on that pro-nazi platform.

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[-] cley_faye@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago

Someone needs to edit their new "logo" and add four lines at the extremities, just to see what it would look like.

[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Edit: Fashtag freeze peach

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[-] pivot_root@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

It doesn't look as good as you would think. The spacing between the lines in the "X" logo aren't evenly distributed, which means the added lines aren't spaced properly either.

Take my word on it, the end result looks more like a dancing cactus than a specific symbol used during World War II.

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[-] echodot@feddit.uk 32 points 1 year ago

You mean they appeared on Twitter?

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[-] Polymath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 year ago

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...

"Since FIP is usually fatal and there are no approved treatments available, GS-441524 has reportedly been sold on the black market and used by pet owners to treat affected cats, although Gilead Sciences has refused to license the drug for veterinary use."

[-] Yokozuna@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

This dumpster fire keeps getting hotter and hotter.

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[-] nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

Two groups of "people" who deserve each other soulless brands and elon.

[-] westyvw@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

When the platform you are on can't seem to figure out its own brand, maybe it is time to move on?

[-] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Don't worry Linda Yaccarino will sort it all out

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Before or after she finds the glass cliff?

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