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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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[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 225 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Honestly? If you’re still on Twitter at this point, that’s on you.

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 49 points 3 months ago (15 children)

But I need it for my ________. There are simply no alternatives.

That's what they say.

[–] scorpious@lemmy.world 31 points 3 months ago

Then your _________ is a cancer and needs to fail.

[–] 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...

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[–] radivojevic@discuss.online 132 points 3 months ago (23 children)

If you still have a Twitter account, you are a piece of shit. That goes for everyone of you

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If you don't care about US politics then don't use an American Nazi's website

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 3 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

[–] Cadeillac@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't ever use it to think to delete it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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[–] Tramort@programming.dev 119 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works 40 points 3 months ago

Damn that's so obvious too. Like their whole best seller book scam. You're probably right.

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 28 points 3 months ago

This is SOP in silicon valley so I'm sure you're correct.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 111 points 3 months ago

Maybe it's time to stop drinking at the nazi bar.

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 79 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Woah who woulda seen this coming? Free speech, politically centered Elon Musk of all people? Crazy!

[–] Pilferjinx@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

I don't think anyone truly believes that anymore. He's been mask off dirtbag for awhile now.

[–] Marin_Rider@aussie.zone 51 points 3 months ago (2 children)

for a bloke who likes to accuse people of being paedophiles, he sure is simping hard for an actual pedo

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 17 points 3 months ago

It's all about projection.

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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 49 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (33 children)

Lets all remember the following tweet by Elon

Guys you are all too left, calm down a bit please.

[–] kureta@lemmy.ml 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The USA doesn't even have a left in any meaningful way. There are two parties, one is right and the other is far right.

[–] zik@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

As someone from a not-US country, I'm always amazed at how right wing the US "liberal" policies are. If Biden was our PM he'd be more right wing than our most recent conservative PM.

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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

You know what? I'm gonna left even harder.

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[–] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 43 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Mastodon/Bluesky > Birdsite. Always.

[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'd say the / should be a > but agreed.

[–] nomous@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I have no idea why people just jumped to another billionaire owned walled garden when Mastodon is sitting right there.

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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 41 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.ca 21 points 3 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.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 38 points 3 months ago (2 children)

How to get every business to leave your platform in one simple step.

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

Yea, right.

At this point he could push porn with himself as every second shiit you see and people would still mindlessly scroll

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

Idk I thought they would have already left a long time ago but they are still there

[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 38 points 3 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!

[–] galoisghost@aussie.zone 30 points 3 months ago (7 children)

I can hear the internal justifications of the “journalists” still using the platform.

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[–] Delusional@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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?

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[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

It's time to start putting everything Republicans love under the Trump tag. Come on Internet, you know the drill!

[–] aStonedSanta@lemm.ee 13 points 3 months ago (4 children)

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…

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[–] Red_October@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Does this represent a taxable benefit for Trump’s campaign?

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[–] p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Lmao I don't use x ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 9 points 3 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.

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