Technology @lemmy.ml Jure Repinc @lemmy.ml 4 mo. ago

Elon Musk's X pushes Trump tags on all US users

www.salon.com Elon Musk's X pushes Trump tags on all U.S. users

The platform prevents users from blocking or muting the tags, which inorganically appear atop the trending page

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.

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Technology @lemmy.world Jure Repinc @lemmy.ml 4 mo. ago

Elon Musk's X pushes Trump tags on all US users

www.salon.com /2024/07/18/elon-musks-x-pushes-tags-on-all-us-users/

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Honestly? If you’re still on Twitter at this point, that’s on you.
If you still have a Twitter account, you are a piece of shit. That goes for everyone of you
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.
Maybe it's time to stop drinking at the nazi bar.
Woah who woulda seen this coming? Free speech, politically centered Elon Musk of all people? Crazy!
for a bloke who likes to accuse people of being paedophiles, he sure is simping hard for an actual pedo
Lets all remember the following tweet by Elon

Guys you are all too left, calm down a bit please.
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.
Mastodon/Bluesky > Birdsite. Always.
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!
How to get every business to leave your platform in one simple step.
Permanently Deleted
I can hear the internal justifications of the “journalists” still using the platform.
Maybe this will make people finally stop using the site for good. But I doubt it.

Who wants to see a child rapist every time you go to their site?
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…
It's time to start putting everything Republicans love under the Trump tag. Come on Internet, you know the drill!
I'd say this is a great time for even more advertisers to abandon that platform, but really anyone who would care about this should have left a long time ago.
Does this represent a taxable benefit for Trump’s campaign?
Lmao I don't use x ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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.
I want to transfer my tweets to my Mastodon before deleting my Twitter account.

I don't understand why a tool like still doesn't exist.
this is forcing
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.
Isn't that illegal in some way?
There is a point in every cult where the leader increases restrictions and demands purity. What this does is eliminate the free thinking people by forcing them to chose. The more you impose these restrictions the crazier they get targeting only the most devote and the most codependent people.

What you end up with is an army of sycophants that will die before they leave the cult. Twitter will be the largest imposition of this strategy on a targeted group of people that i can think of. It's time to start being afraid of the cult of elon.

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