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.

  • @MicroWaveOP
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    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.

  • Flying Squid
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    5910 months ago

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

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

      • Flying Squid
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        I’m not saying that at all. I’m just saying like follows like. They should enjoy being associated with fascists.

  • @febra
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    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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        Disagree on not reading into it. You should be appalled by the fact that profit comes at the sacrifice of ethics.

        • @[email protected]
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          Yes but not enough people will boycott everything that supports things they are against. A lot of people will have a brand that they say “yeah but I really like them”

          And all corporations are evil, it’s not really a surprise

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            Companies aren’t real, they’re just people organized into a collective, and people do have ethics.

            And contrary to Internet wisdom, corporations do not have a legal obligation to pursue profit at all cost.

            One might ask what the point of spreading that particular lie was.

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                Sure. But I find it strange that people act like those evil fucks are a faceless building and not individuals you can point to and say, “Hey, no, it’s that guy, he enslaved those kids.”

      • @febra
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        I don’t see why I shouldn’t look into it. Are there any good reasons not to?

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          You can look into it but it doesn’t mean company supports X

          Look at pride month or the bud light thing

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      Found one it’s called google, seem like all companies in the world advertise on twitter except for these two in the title that pulled out

  • @cley_faye
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    Someone needs to edit their new “logo” and add four lines at the extremities, just to see what it would look like.

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      Edit: Fashtag freeze peach

    • @pivot_root
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      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.

      • @cley_faye
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        That would not be the result I expected but a sort of “Pampa X” sounds way cooler anyway hehe.

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    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
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    This dumpster fire keeps getting hotter and hotter.

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

  • Prior_Industry
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    Don’t worry Linda Yaccarino will sort it all out

    • Billiam
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      Before or after she finds the glass cliff?

  • Flying Squid
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    FWIW, the Nazi account has now been suspended.

    • @[email protected]
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      Yeah, but Twitter is just a nazi safe haven under Musk. Elon Musk and Tesla have no problem associating themselves with nazis.

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        Who would imagine Nazis in electric vehicles was the future. Fun fact nazis were early adopters of the vegan lifestyle.

        • @Lurk99777
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          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.

    • @[email protected]
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      Was it really nazi, or was it “nazi”? What did they post?

      Edit: lol OK

      which has shared content celebrating Hitler and the Nazi Party.

      • @Daft_ish
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        So, only mildly nazism. Damn news media always exaggerating everything.

  • @xc2215x
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    Glad they suspended their advertising. A good decision.