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.
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.
“Paused” 🤣
Just gotta let the smoke blow over then it’s business as usual.
Maybe but it could also be carrot/sticking the Muskrat.
Fuck Adobe and their greedy CEO.
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Go back and re-read my comment. I didn’t say any of that shit. I just hate Adobe. Though I can play the same game you’re playing:
Wow, marmo7ade thinks Twitter should be hosting Nazi content! Let’s get this Nazi banned!
I have no idea how their brain could possibly have made whatever insane conclusion it did. I’m gonna just assume it’s a bot.
Edit: lawl absolutely golden
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Here comes the waterworks from the alt-right fanboys
NCTA and Gilead are an evil organization and an evil corporation. They should feel right at home with the Nazis.
But being honest is bad for business. Need to keep the beard on.
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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.
You mean just like placed next to regular Twitter content?
It’s a Nazi bar now.
You mean they appeared on Twitter?
X, you mean. It’s the core of a swastika.
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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Companies don’t have ethics, they have profits
You shouldn’t read too much into it
Disagree on not reading into it. You should be appalled by the fact that profit comes at the sacrifice of ethics.
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
Companies don’t have ethics.
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.
The company boards would gladly stuff you into Gaza if there was a profit to be made.
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.”
What are we going to do? What recourse did the girls raped by Epstein have?
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
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…
This dumpster fire keeps getting hotter and hotter.
Just like the climate and oceans.
I wonder if it’s all linked in the multiverse?
🤣🤣
When the platform you are on can’t seem to figure out its own brand, maybe it is time to move on?
Don’t worry Linda Yaccarino will sort it all out
Before or after she finds the glass cliff?
Two groups of “people” who deserve each other soulless brands and elon.
FWIW, the Nazi account has now been suspended.
Yeah, but Twitter is just a nazi safe haven under Musk. Elon Musk and Tesla have no problem associating themselves with nazis.
Who would imagine Nazis in electric vehicles was the future. Fun fact nazis were early adopters of the vegan lifestyle.
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.
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.
So, only mildly nazism. Damn news media always exagergetating everything.
In that time 500 were created
Very probably.
Glad they suspended their advertising. A good decision.
this surprises no one whos been paying any attention
One of the brands is Gilead Science. I know the name is based on the Balm of Gilead, but after The Handmaid’s Tale the name has a nasty resonance…
