Elon Musk's X pushes Trump tags on all US users
Elon Musk's X pushes Trump tags on all US 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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Honestly? If you’re still on Twitter at this point, that’s on you.
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But I need it for my ________. There are simply no alternatives.
That's what they say.
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Then your _________ is a cancer and needs to fail.
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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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Like it or not, Twitter is still the de-facto place for breaking news stories. You just have to sift through the dross.
As much as Mastodon is a far nicer and healthier social platform, it has a long way to go before it gets anywhere close in this particular regard.
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If you still have a Twitter account, you are a piece of shit. That goes for everyone of you
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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
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I don't ever use it to think to delete it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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A bit harsh I think
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Is it? I don't think anyone gets a pass on supporting a nazi.
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I still have a Twitter account. I mostly watch the cess pit argue with each other and to keep up with the latest misinformation.
But even that is growing tiresome.
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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.
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Damn that's so obvious too. Like their whole best seller book scam. You're probably right.
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This is SOP in silicon valley so I'm sure you're correct.
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Maybe it's time to stop drinking at the nazi bar.
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Woah who woulda seen this coming? Free speech, politically centered Elon Musk of all people? Crazy!
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I don't think anyone truly believes that anymore. He's been mask off dirtbag for awhile now.
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for a bloke who likes to accuse people of being paedophiles, he sure is simping hard for an actual pedo
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It's all about projection.
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Lets all remember the following tweet by Elon
Guys you are all too left, calm down a bit please.
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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.
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You know what? I'm gonna left even harder.
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This is true though. 1992 Bill Clinton would be a republican today. Biden supported a 1994 crime bill that is considered racist today. Obama didn't support gay marriage in 2008. Now liberals are fighting for sex change treatments for children. People 30 years ago would consider such an idea a grotesque absurdity.
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Most republicans prior to Reagan are more like today’s liberals. They did things like make national parks, codify civil rights, and invest in social programs. Today’s liberals are trying to do what those republicans did - save natural lands, implement social programs, and enhance rights for people.
That said, just because a liberal does some things a conservative might approve of doesn’t make them a Republican, nor would the inverse be true.
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maybe we should all ask our ancestors what they think about our society. you know 80 years ago people wouldn't be so keen on integration so much, maybe we should give this whole "having black people freely move around" a second thought, what do you think?
also you're massively misunderstanding the whole political spectrum but i don't have the energy. I'll just suffice to say liberals are not and have never been left wing. left has gained some traction in recent years but that's not about liberals. also for every inch the democrats have moved to the left, republicans have moved a mile to the right. the Overton window has shifted, but not to the left overall.
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Conservatism is dead. Climate change is scientifically proven to be catastrophic.
If we do nothing, change will come to us, and fuck up everything. If we elect to change our society and systems, we save ourselves but our way of living changes.
One way or another there's change. There's nothing to conserve. Stop yelling and kicking like an irrational kid trying to save conservatism and crony capitalism.
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It is true. And that's OK. Failure to change with the times and to learn from scientific advancements and social improvements is a conservative trait.
You are accurate, but it begs the question: Is not changing your opinions with time and new info a respectable way to live your life? Will you be on the right side of history? Who knows? But I feel like giving people more options is more often better than the alternative.
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Biden supported a 1994 crime bill that is considered racist today.
Some context is required there, though. The 1994 crime bill did have significant support among Black leaders and activists. It was seen as an imperfect solution to a critical issue that disproportionately affected Black neighborhoods at the time.
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Clinton was a rightward leap of the Democratic party. In reality the left and right move in response to each other, but the direction it goes is not fixed.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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How to get every business to leave your platform in one simple step.
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Yea, right.
At this point he could push porn with himself as every second shiit you see and people would still mindlessly scroll
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Idk I thought they would have already left a long time ago but they are still there
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I can hear the internal justifications of the “journalists” still using the platform.
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A major Danish news site recently said they'd delete their accounts on Twitter :)
Although no plans for making a Mastodon account instead :(
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What platform are journalists supposed to be using when almost all of them seem to be biased?
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Any platform that doesn’t openly advertise (and have an owner who openly donates to the campaign of) one particular candidate. I would not expect to find any self respecting journalist to have an account on Truth Social for instance. Being on either platform directly contributes to the election campaign of Donald Trump.
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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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"Paying for these adds" lol he owns the platform, sure he'll probably get some mega donation tax breaks but like all he has to do is flip a couple bits, which is pretty damn cheal
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I think they mean paying for these ads in the "creative" bookkeeping way.
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Wouldn't the value of this advertising be a direct campaign contribution that could violate campaign finance laws?
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That’s kinda what I’m playing at. The whole things stinks. Essentially a way for him to project Twitters advertising as bumping back in a big way cause of all the “campaign funds” funneling back into Twitter. So paying himself maybe isn’t the right wording but I think it nails the context of what I mean. Edit: spelling.
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It's time to start putting everything Republicans love under the Trump tag. Come on Internet, you know the drill!
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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.
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Does this represent a taxable benefit for Trump’s campaign?
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That has been my question with the pedo files hash tags were being removed haha
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Lmao I don't use x ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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this is forcing
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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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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.
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IMO, that tool probably doesn't exists mainly because it'd be a thankless pain in the ass.
In general, unless you're self-hosting Mastodon, you probably mean "my Mastodon account on someone's server". And that "someone's server" probably has some moderation rules which differ significantly from Twitter. So, re-posting a bunch of tweets (i.e. "transferring") to someone's server can get hairy. Maybe some or all of your past stuff isn't copacetic with the new server - but who wants to re-litigate a sudden influx of old posts?
So, IMO, whoever writes (or uses) a tool to copy over a bunch of Twitter posts to any arbitrary Mastodon server is probably going to get yelled at a lot.
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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.
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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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It’s time to start being afraid of the cult of elon.
He's said he's going to donate $45m per month to Trump until November. It's becoming very clear he bought out Twitter to suppress free communication of people.
He sees which way the wind is blowing and is hoping he can help install Dictator-for-a-day Trump who'll deregulate every industry and cut every tax that might apply to him.
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Isn't that illegal in some way?