X, the social media platform owned by Trump megadonor Elon Musk, is promoting Trump campaign-curated content to all U.S. users, regardless of whether they have opted out of Trump-related content.
On the platform formerly known as Twitter, banner ads for the Trump campaign donning the #Trump2024 tag appear for all U.S. users, even those who’ve blocked words, topics, and hashtags related to the candidate or his campaign or muted the advertiser.
Additionally, the #MAGA tag displays an edited image of the former president from his attempted assassination and the #Trump2024 hashtag displays an American flag.
It is unclear whether the Trump campaign paid for the images on the #Trump2024 and #MAGA tags, though an advertisement for the tag on the site’s trending page reads “Promoted by Team Trump.” As Mashable noted, it is the first time the platform has enabled the image feature to promote a specific political candidate.
Clicking the Trump2024 tag also prompts American flag graphics to flood the screen.
- mozz ( @mozz@mbin.grits.dev ) 132•2 months ago
Honestly? If you’re still on Twitter at this point, that’s on you.
- BossDj ( @BossDj@lemm.ee ) 29•2 months ago
But I need it for my ________. There are simply no alternatives.
That’s what they say.
- aleph ( @aleph@lemm.ee ) English1•2 months ago
Like it or not, Twitter is still the de-facto place for breaking news stories. You just have to sift through the dross.
As much as Mastodon is a far nicer and healthier social platform, it has a long way to go before it gets anywhere close in this particular regard.
- radivojevic ( @radivojevic@discuss.online ) 85•2 months ago
If you still have a Twitter account, you are a piece of shit. That goes for everyone of you
- تحريرها كلها ممكن ( @PanArab@lemmy.ml ) 32•2 months ago
Most of the world doesn’t know or care about US politics. X is a hellish platform though that does crack on pro-Palestinian users.
- MindTraveller ( @MindTraveller@lemmy.ca ) English14•2 months ago
If you don’t care about US politics then don’t use an American Nazi’s website
- تحريرها كلها ممكن ( @PanArab@lemmy.ml ) 9•2 months ago
Way ahead of you. I got banned from Twitter before Elon even bought it for a joke on the biased representation of Arabs in media. It has gotten worse since then.
- lidd1ejimmy ( @lidd1ejimmy@lemmy.ml ) English17•2 months ago
A bit harsh I think
- Midnitte ( @Midnitte@beehaw.org ) English14•2 months ago
Is it? I don’t think anyone gets a pass on supporting a nazi.
- CableMonster ( @CableMonster@lemmy.ml ) 2•2 months ago
OMG A GUY IS DONATING MONEY TO A POLTICAL CANDIDATE!!!
- MummifiedClient5000 ( @MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk ) English11•2 months ago
You know very well that musk is not just “a guy”, he is ultrarich and is using his money to get more money, no matter the cost to the rest of the world.
You know very well that the amount musk promises to donate monthly is more money than most people will see in their entire lifetime - including you.
You know very well that trump is not just a political candidate. He is a fascist piece of shit and has already stated that he will be a dictator.
Why do you simp for these fuckers? They wouldn’t bother to piss on you if you were on fire.
- CableMonster ( @CableMonster@lemmy.ml ) 2•2 months ago
You know very well that trump is not just a political candidate. He is a fascist piece of shit and has already stated that he will be a dictator.
Annnnnd this is where you go off the rail.
I simp for the truth and consistency. Elon is just another billionaire that is influencing things, the only reason you care about what he is doing is because your team tells you to care. You guys used to like elon, but since he left the circle jerk he is the enemy. You should like a troll billionaire but you cant get past the agenda.
- MummifiedClient5000 ( @MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk ) English6•2 months ago
None of the statements I made are wrong.
Did you not pay attention when trump said he’d be a dictator on day one? Or are you just ignoring that easily verifiable fact?
Will you be disappointed if he doesn’t behave like a proper dictator on day one, considering your love for truth and consistency?
- CableMonster ( @CableMonster@lemmy.ml ) 1•2 months ago
What were the two things he listed after he said he was going to be dictator on day one?
The issue is that they are misleading you with lying facts. For example if I said “A person is YY times more likely to die in a hospital than at the grocery store”, that would be true but its misleading to believe that if I go to the hospital I am more likely to die than at the grocery store.
- INHALE_VEGETABLES ( @INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone ) 9•2 months ago
Nah it’s fine
- lidd1ejimmy ( @lidd1ejimmy@lemmy.ml ) English1•2 months ago
I should change my name to INHALE_BEEF
- katy ✨ ( @cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 8•2 months ago
i got rid of mine shortly after he officially owned it but i used to follow a lot of certain people on nitter for a long time but the past year or so ive even been doing that less and less because i don’t care about it anymore
- rammer ( @rammer@sopuli.xyz ) 4•2 months ago
I still have a Twitter account. I mostly watch the cess pit argue with each other and to keep up with the latest misinformation.
But even that is growing tiresome.
- Tramort ( @Tramort@programming.dev ) 69•2 months ago
I’m willing to bet that Elon donated the money to be kicked back to Twitter in order to fraudulently make it look like revenue was improving.
- anachronist ( @anachronist@midwest.social ) English20•2 months ago
This is SOP in silicon valley so I’m sure you’re correct.
- Chozo ( @Chozo@fedia.io ) 67•2 months ago
Maybe it’s time to stop drinking at the nazi bar.
- Avid Amoeba ( @avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ) 26•2 months ago
So the whole Twitter acquisition hullabaloo was all about electing more tax breaks after all wasn’t it. And here I was thinking it was perhaps about the ability to do some more sophisticated propaganda or just because of Elon’s pure stupidity.
- MindTraveller ( @MindTraveller@lemmy.ca ) English16•2 months ago
You’re giving him too much credit. Influencing elections is an incidental benefit to the real purpose. Which is that now Elon gets to ban anyone who disagrees with him on Twitter.
- Matúš Maštena ( @DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml ) 26•2 months ago
Mastodon/Bluesky > Birdsite. Always.
- curbstickle ( @curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 14•2 months ago
I’d say the / should be a > but agreed.
- galoisghost ( @galoisghost@aussie.zone ) 25•2 months ago
I can hear the internal justifications of the “journalists” still using the platform.
- CableMonster ( @CableMonster@lemmy.ml ) 2•2 months ago
What platform are journalists supposed to be using when almost all of them seem to be biased?
- galoisghost ( @galoisghost@aussie.zone ) 3•2 months ago
Any platform that doesn’t openly advertise (and have an owner who openly donates to the campaign of) one particular candidate. I would not expect to find any self respecting journalist to have an account on Truth Social for instance. Being on either platform directly contributes to the election campaign of Donald Trump.
- saigot ( @saigot@lemmy.ca ) 1•2 months ago
Idk I think there are probably a lot of journalists who qt least go truth social, to study and report on what the most right wing groups are doing.
- CableMonster ( @CableMonster@lemmy.ml ) 1•2 months ago
Which platform would that be? I am not trying to be difficult, but I think probably all platforms are heavily biased.
- galoisghost ( @galoisghost@aussie.zone ) 1•2 months ago
X/Twitter
- CableMonster ( @CableMonster@lemmy.ml ) 1•2 months ago
Then why dont you like it?
- SorteKanin ( @SorteKanin@feddit.dk ) 2•2 months ago
A major Danish news site recently said they’d delete their accounts on Twitter :)
Although no plans for making a Mastodon account instead :(
- SSJMarx ( @SSJMarx@lemm.ee ) English22•2 months ago
Back when Musk was complaining about Twitter’s perceived bias, it wasn’t because he’s against that sort of thing, it was because he wanted to be the one doing it.
- Marin_Rider ( @Marin_Rider@aussie.zone ) 20•2 months ago
for a bloke who likes to accuse people of being paedophiles, he sure is simping hard for an actual pedo
- ShaggySnacks ( @ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one ) English9•2 months ago
It’s all about projection.
- asexualchangeling ( @asexualchangeling@lemmy.ml ) 1•2 months ago
Probably has something to do with both their names being in the Epstein files
- BigMacHole ( @BigMacHole@lemm.ee ) 17•2 months ago
A Billionaire simping THIS HARD for a Politician who is a known Child Rapist who doesn’t pay his workers or taxes is PROOF that Democrats are the Swamp and REPUBLICANS care about the Working Class!
- psvrh ( @psvrh@lemmy.ca ) 8•2 months ago
Does this represent a taxable benefit for Trump’s campaign?
- OldWoodFrame ( @OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee ) 5•2 months ago
If the Trump campaign paid for it as an ad, I’m not upset by it assuming anyone else could have paid to promote an alternative political candidate.
If it’s an in-kind donation to the campaign, that’s troublesome.
- Read bio ( @Mwa@thelemmy.club ) English5•2 months ago
this is forcing
- aStonedSanta ( @aStonedSanta@lemm.ee ) 5•2 months ago
So is Elon Musk paying himself for these ads? What are the implications around that ideology? If he’s donating 34 mill a month and that all is going to Twitter for this…
- jjjalljs ( @jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ) 4•2 months ago
I’m surprised Twitter is still running. How many engineers do they have?
Maybe those engineers should go rogue and just… not do this. But no, probably the ones left are jerks who support this, or people with visa worries.
Maybe someone will push Musk in front of a bus though.