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The European Union is pulling its advertisements from Elon Musk’s X for now, citing an “alarming increase” in hate speech and disinformation on the platform formerly known as Twitter.

EU stops advertising on X over hate speech. Fines could follow next year::The European Union is pulling its advertisements from Elon Musk’s X for now, citing an “alarming increase” in hate speech and disinformation on the platform formerly known as Twitter.

  • seananigans@lemmy.worldEnglish
    453·
    2 years ago

    This comment will make me sound like an idiot, but I’m just coming to believe that all of Musk’s decisions with X were targeted to this very outcome. To be the world’s centre of alt right propaganda. It just makes too much sense now.

    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldEnglish
      25·
      2 years ago

      He’s not that smart. He got stuck having to buy Twitter after his pump and dump backfired. His solution to having to buy Twitter was to cut costs by firing staff and use his celebrity to manufacturer engagement with troll posts.

      The problem he missed was that staff was necessary to keep hate speech under control and his trolling meant to drive engagement would backfire from advertisers and regulators.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      131·
      2 years ago

      I wouldn’t say idiot, just very naive when it comes to your assessment of Musk’s ability to think ahead. He’s basically a South African Alex Jones who started out rich(er) 🤷

        • jaybone@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          Does Truth Social actually not allow users outside of the US?

          That’s hilarious. Do they do it by IP? Because I’d imagine a lot of their users might be troops stationed over seas. Course the military probably has WANs with .mil addresses that everyone uses.

    • camr_on@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      I think it’s not impossible that the goal was simply to discredit Twitter entirely

    • Zoboomafoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      You’d be right. 10 days before he bought it, Musk got linked a plan to buy twitter and turn it into right-wing American WeChat.

      I heard about it on Rachel Maddow’s October 2 show (has it really been 2 months since then?)

    • Bremmy@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      He’s just a stupid narcissist that came into money. They don’t think that far ahead, and it makes him look bad so he wouldn’t want this outcome