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X runs ‘timeline takeover’ ad promoting anti-trans film (techcrunch.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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Thursday on X (Twitter), all users saw the same pinned topic under the “What’s happening?” sidebar. As part of a “timeline takeover” — which gives advertisers “priority access to logged-in users’ first impression of the day” — conservative media nonprofit PragerU is promoting the hashtag “#DETRANS” to advertise its new film about “the stories of detransitioners.”

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[–] mob 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh I hate this argument.

With an election year next year, politics is about to get shoe horned into everything with the "(insert subject) is politics" is justification.

I think most people think of technology as scientific based rather than social media trends and events.

[–] peanutyam 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s only if you live in the US though….the rest of the world doesn’t care that much for your local politics….so it won’t be “shoehorned” into all posts as there are internet users outside the USA….gasp

[–] mob 2 points 1 year ago

Non American Internet users likely talk American politics just as much as Americans. Even if it is just to criticize Americans

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't call the possibly intentional destruction of a social media infrastructure "social media trends and events."