17/11/2023
The social media platform X was formerly called Twitter and was acquired by Elon Musk last year.
The European Commission has suspended publicity on X (formerly Twitter) over increases in disinformation and hate speech on the social media platform.
Spokesman Johannes Bahrke said the Commission had “advised services to refrain from advertising at this stage”.
“We have concerns that such content appears, that our content appears in an inappropriate context and thus affects the effectiveness of our communications and our messages,” said Bahrke.
He added that these were internal guidelines that are revised frequently depending on the evolution of the problem.
While the spokesman would not comment on the specific reasons why they had chosen to pause advertisements, he said that the change in guidance was recent.
The announcement came after the US nonprofit organisation Media Matters found that X had placed adverts for major brands such as Apple, Bravo, IBM, Oracle and Xfinity next to pro-Nazi content.
The report prompted company IBM to suspend all advertisements on X pending an investigation into the issue.
They’re not the only advertiser fleeing the platform: owner Elon Musk said in a July social media post that the platform was in “negative cash flow” over a 50 per cent drop in advertising revenue and heavy debt load.
The European Commission also faces a legal complaint filed by the non-profit European Centre for Digital Rights (noyb) over its alleged use of microtargeted advertisements on X about a controversial child sexual abuse bill.
Noyb claims that the Commission targeted users based on political views and religious beliefs, showing adverts to people who weren’t interested in keywords like Brexit, #Qatargate, Marine Le Pen, Vox, Christian, and Giorgia Meloni among others.
Bahrke said, however, that the new guidance wasn’t directly related to the spending and buying by the directorate general cited in the complaint.
A recent report found that X, which was acquired by Elon Musk last year, had failed to remove hate speech and misinformation from the platform.
X has repeatedly come under fire over Musk’s changes, specifically related to content moderation.
This site is as toxic as RT and needs closing down as a threat to US national security.
Everyone with dignity and honor should go away from this pro-russian, anti-democratic platform X, formally Twitter, and better off being called Z or 卐.
But, I can imagine that certain companies will not boycott Elon Muskovich’s propaganda site, namely those who are still helping to finance mafia land’s genocidal war, such as Procter & Gamble, Pepsi, Nestle, Unilever, Knauf, AstraZeneka, Coca-Cola HBC, L’Oreal, Ferrero, Liebherr, Westinghouse, Claas, Bacardi, and many more. They have no dignity, no common decency, no sense of right over wrong. They are money-grubbing, greedy entities that will step over mounds of corpses and wade through brood for a handful of dollars.
Musk has a far-right agenda.
and here we see the strategies of mass manipulation, the same ones that led to Brexit and the election of Trump.
the honesty, the ethics, with variable geometry, of some people cope very well with these deviousness, these underground maneuvers.
I remember an Englishwoman who explained that there had been a targeted disinformation action against immigrants living in England to tell them that with Brexit and the rejection of migrants coming from France, they could instead bring theirs…
in the end only misleading arguments.
Looks like X is heading to a crash, like Starship just did. A streak of bad luck for Musk. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.
Yes, the news about that explosion was the creaming on the cake of bad news for the little shit nugget.