Twitter Removes Its 'No Political Ads' Policy Ahead of the 2024 Election
The company that was recently rebranded as X claims it will have a moderation team for political ads on its platform.
If you didn't think Twitter sucked before, wait until half the ads are for Trump.
It actually amazes me that people still use that cesspool.
Yeah, also anyone who claims that they didn't switch to mastodon because it is too confusing, must have serious learning disability. I can understand that Lemmy is harder than traditional reddit, because the problem is more complex and the service still need a lot of polish, but mastodon is very simple to use.
I think part of the problem is so many things have relied on it up until now. I read how at a college shooting that was the main way they had to tell people to stay where they were. Which is a problem if that is your only way to communicate in an emergency situation.
So much news is passed quickly from it or other social media. If you're not on it now you're often left in the dark. Which is good for mental well being for some of us (me), but bad at other times.
"Half" is being very optimistic.
half? being generous are we?
So, like a normal day on YouTube in 2016?
Oh sorry, you said half... It was most the ads on YouTube in 2016.
People are starting to experience a real change right now. Those that are paying attention are trying to avoid Meta, X, formerly known as Twitter, Instagram, and a bunch of other partisan bs. The near-future will be interesting.
Yeah, I might have to delete Twitter just to get away from political ads.
I subscribed to YouTube premium specifically to avoid political adverts while still supporting content creators (political adverts are even more repetitive and uncreative than commercials, in my mind), and I actively avoid any room my parents are in when they’re watching any TV at all during campaign season.
I’ll get my info on how to vote by actually looking up the candidates’ actions on databases, thanks.
The real problem at this point isn't twitter. it's idiots continuing to use and empower Twitter even though they know it's a problem.
Same with reddit and other social media.
People need to start owning their behaviors but keyboard warrior talks much, but got forbid they face any slight inconvience.
Eh, at least with reddit you can stick to the niche subreddits there that don't have a large community anywhere else and avoid the political cesspool side of it. And if you use it on desktop in classic mode with ublock or other similar addons, it's still a pretty nice experience, all things considered.
Twitter, on the other hand, shoves anything and everything in your face against your will.
Translates to- twitter will only show pro trump ads.
Probably mostly, yes. Also this is likely an indication of how fucked their finances are.
By then the only users might be pro trump anyway
Why are people still using Twitter/x.
Puts on old man hat.
People talk shit about Twitter and still use it. Is it really that hard to quit? Essentially that makes everything you say seem unbelievable.
Don't talk about it, be about it!
A lot of people have abandoned it
Its not like everybody is hating on twitter, the ones that like it still use it but in lemmy you will see a lot of hate because, you know how we all came here in the first place
Until pro sports abandons twitter it is not going anywhere.
They desperately need money so yeah
I wonder what political party will be advertising alongside Nazi content? Hmmmm.
Muskrat needs to try to get some money flowing there somehow.
This was the plan all along. Let’s see if he can keep it afloat until November 2024. Watch for fresh cash infusions from familiar players.
He's gonna have so many rubles he can pretend he's Scrooge Mcduck.
People really need to just accept the fact that, for better or worse, "Twitter.com" as we knew it is dead and "X.com" is here to take all of the flaws and worst aspects of the old platform and turn them into the main selling points of the new platform. Extremist right-wing politics and disinformation are no longer bugs, but features.
It doesn't make sense to be so attached to a social network that you're willing to constantly turn a blind eye to how toxic it is for society and democracy.
Ditch Twitter
Things went as predicably as we knew it would when Musk bought Twitter. He's always been an alt right sell out, and Twitter was a great way to broadcast alt right propaganda.
He's part of the still ongoing coup with the GOP plus his direct communication with Putin of all people. It's fairly obvious at this point.
Mush is probably desperate for every single cent he can wring out of Xitter. I'd guess that before they sold all the office furniture he went through every couch looking for loose change.
And the collective IQ of this country just dropped another few thousand points.
Twitter is none stop political ads. They ever had a "no political ads" policy to begin with?
The 2024 election is all that Twitter needs to survive through. After that Musk will probably let it die.
I definitely think he's trying to burn twatter down to the ground so he doesn't have to deal with it.