Far-right Twitter influencers first on Elon Musk’s monetization scheme (www.washingtonpost.com)

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

Isn’t this, like, on purpose? Controversy and hate drive engagement, and since Elon “you’re a pedo cuck” Musk doesn’t give a shit about discussion quality or morality issues, it’s pretty obvious why he’s gone for that.

I wonder what advertisers think though, and whether they’re ok with sharing their advertising budget this way. Just from a public image point of view alone it might be a problem for some, if not most large companies.

[-] [email protected] -4 points 2 years ago

It doesn’t share anything about advertisers budgets?

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Their ads are going to appear in these discussions though, right? And it’s easy enough to screenshot. So I’d guess we’ll see a lot more of “hey BrandX, see, you’re sponsoring racism/sexism/genocide apology/etc.” discussions going forward.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Yep, in sure those brands are thrilled that the money they give to Twitter goes to people like Andrew Tate.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Elon knows who supports him and who hates him.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Gotta enrich others like himself, ya know, people who want to own slaves.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Twitter is dead.

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