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Elon Musk's X pushes Trump tags on all US users (www.salon.com)

submitted 3 months ago by JRepin@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] SergeantScar@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I totally get the sentiment... But there are people that I can't get anywhere else.. mostly my local police, fire department, and local govt are only on xitter... Also heavily use for the national weather service, but if drumpy wins that will be going away.

The last couple days I've been investigating if any of those are on threads, so I can try find a way to follow them mastodon... But doubt they have their accounts enabled for the fediverse... But I'd also have to migrate my mastodon account to an instance that hasn't de-federated threads...

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 5 points 3 months ago

mostly my local police, fire department, and local govt are only on xitter

The thing is, they are there because the users are there. After all, they want to reach the most people with their important official messaging.

You have to leave to make them leave.