X runs ‘timeline takeover’ ad promoting anti-trans film

Thursday on X (Twitter), all users saw the same pinned topic under the “What’s happening?” sidebar. As part of a “timeline takeover” — which gives advertisers “priority access to logged-in users’ first impression of the day” — conservative media nonprofit PragerU is promoting the hashtag “” to advertise its new film about “the stories of detransitioners.”

dinckelman,

Can we please just stop talking about the clown in command, and his dogshit bigoted platform?

hiddenSin,

And how is this even about technology anymore?

wmassingham,

It never was.

can,

Seriously though, are there any better tech communities here?

natecox,
@natecox@programming.dev avatar

Browse around programming.dev, there’s plenty of good tech content here.

can,

I’ll take a look, thanks. I also just made !technology at someone’s else’s suggestion

RaoulDook,

It is about an abuse of technology so it is relevant

hiddenSin,

Everyday there is some “tech news” about X. These are not tech news anymore. How is a trans film promotion tech news? Where is the technology in this? This is just drama news at this point.

ColonelSanders,

So, any news regarding a tech company is not, in your eyes, “tech news”?

hiddenSin,

That’s right. I think of tech news to be about the technology not about some political, racist, transphobic, etc… things. If it was actualy about tech then so be it but this ain’t it chief.

can, (edited )

!enoughmuskspam

danc4498,

And also can we not mention the things they want mentioned on the internet?

Let’s spread the hashtag to multiple websites… that’ll prevent it from trending!

seitanic,
@seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I’m sure if we ignore him, he’ll just go away. That’s how this works, right?

xc2215x,

Knowing Elon, I am not surprised.

InEnduringGrowStrong,
@InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works avatar

Twitter already sucked in its own ways, but X-formerly-known-as-twitter is so utter shit I have a hard time imagining people browsing and enjoying it.

Nougat,

That's because you have a hard time imagining what it would be like to be one of the people who browses and enjoys it.

fubo,

Those people are called “material supporters of fascism”.

Nougat,

Why mince words? Fascists.

Unaware7013,

Most people struggle to turn off their brain enough to be able to think as stupidly as those people do.

TheImpressiveX,
@TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml avatar

X-formerly-known-as-twitter

I’ve also heard people call it “Twitter, desperately trying to be known as X”.

st3ph3n,
@st3ph3n@kbin.social avatar

Shitter

JohnnyCanuck,

Xitter, pronounced “shitter”.

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