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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/18147280

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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[–] misterundercoat 184 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Remember, if you use xshitter in any way, even to follow your favorite progressive celebrities and complain about the platform and write mean tweets about Elon, you are validating the platform. You are putting money in his pocket so that he can continue to donate $45 million per month to conservative superPACs.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The biggest fear I have for the country is seeing peoples inability to just stop using things that are being enshittified that are completely optional. I get people have to bank and shop for food and such but no one needs to be using social media or streaming or any crappy internet stuff.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is the argument I always see: "But all my friends and favorite content creators are there!"

Okay, get new online friends, and write to your favorite creators that they should switch to Mastodon. Hell, switch to Bluesky. But every interaction is a bit of data, a bit of engagement, that Elon can show to advertisers to entice them to buy multi-million dollar ad packages.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I stopped using whatsapp because fuck facebook. All my friends are like: yeah, i wish, but everyone i know uses whatsapp. That is a very good argument that i haven't thought off. Same with twitter people. Oh i totally see how much it must suck if you don't know what kind shit the rock is trying to sell you.

[–] j4k3 124 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Buying or owning Tesla, or using his bullshit is supporting Trump.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (18 children)

Yup. I call Tesla's "Muskmobiles" and have a lot of contempt for the people driving them. I assume these people are Trumpers.

If people don't want this association, then replace the logo or sell the thing.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

would like to see a decal that surrounds the tesla logo to make it read "FUCK TRUMP"

[–] EvilBit 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

So you’re saying someone needs to sell a bunch of “FUCK RUMP” decals? I mean I was already thinking of starting that business.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

you could even repurpose stickers that said that for completely non-political purposes! it's free real estate

[–] EvilBit 3 points 5 months ago

A wide range of rump fucking target audiences!

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[–] elrik 13 points 5 months ago

I assume these people are Trumpers.

That's a pretty bad assumption.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Man, I really do feel sorry for the people who are progressive and bought a Tesla and are stuck with ut for whichever reason from back when Musk was still that "quirky but relatable genius billionaire" (quotations because most people now know he never really was that, but a lot still thought it at the time)

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Wouldn't this be a great opportunity to flood that hashtag with content that talks about project 2025? Or the Epstein list?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I wouldn't be surprised if melon husk added a filter for those terms.

[–] WhatAmLemmy 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

You know he has, or at least will eventually, if he's dumb enough to be a failure at PsyOps 101... which wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.

[–] ZILtoid1991 3 points 5 months ago

He's already deboosting pro-Ukrainian sources, so I wouldn't be surprised...

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 5 months ago (2 children)

People still use twitter? It's just a right wing bot cesspool now.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A lot of people on the left think they're able to throw sand in the gears by tweeting how mean Elon is.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago

I mean, that's what got his dumbass to buy it in the first place lol.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 5 months ago (2 children)

All this simping for him and Trump just announced he's going to destroy the EV credits cause EVs are too expensive. Remind me, isn't oil still to this day subsidized by taxpayers?

[–] barsquid 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's not a problem because the oil barons are paying Repub leadership directly.

[–] Tyfud 13 points 5 months ago

As Musk has proven, it doesn't matter if you're an oil baron or a renewable energies baron; all baron's are dickheads. It's not the field or the damage it does to the world, it's the role at the top itself that creates these megalomaniac dickheads.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Elon: The EV market has soured on me, I'm willing to trade the tax credits for something...

Don: I got just the thing: you can sell SpaceX satellites to the Russians

Elon: Perfect!

sucking sounds resume

[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I love it when terrible people do terrible things to their own wealth. What I don't love is how after a certain number of billions, you have an infinite wealth cheat code to fuck around with.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

Billionaires get so obvious with crap they want, it reminds me of a toddler that really wants his very own formula one racer or artillery piece or nuclear reactor.

And yeah, if it weren't so critically deleterious to the rest of us to let him have it, we'd let him pull a Stockton Rush and blow himself up with mad science.

But the rest of us really don't want to have to clean up after his one party autocracy or suffer through the critical scarcity, the civil war and the holocaust that propagandists will deny for centuries.

When you look upon a billionaire, see them as a bird, trying desperately to feed a cuckoo chick at the cost of their own offspring, only this chick never grows up and flies away, but stays, ever eating, ever growing like a cancer, demanding nourishment forever.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Twitter was never perfect but at one point you could have reasonable back and forths about articles under the posts of the authors who wrote it, who also would chime in occasionally.

I very much believe muskrat buying it made the whole site less intelligent which is honestly a feat in and of itself. It's not lost on me a place where you could directly and reliably contact journalists as an individual is now an arm of right wing propaganda.

[–] fluxion 12 points 5 months ago

And nothing you say gets seen unless you buy a fucking checkmark off of Musk

[–] robocall 34 points 5 months ago

So glad I use Lemmy and not Twitter

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Musk is such a whiny little kunt.

[–] ChronosTriggerWarning 28 points 5 months ago (3 children)

He's not a cunt, he lacks the warmth and depth. He's lower than a cunt. He's a cankle.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago

All twitter users are Musk's army, even if they don't think so.

[–] Etterra 29 points 5 months ago

I'm continuously glad that I got out of Twitter the day Elon took over.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hopefully this will enrage the users enough to go and actually vote against Trump.

[–] ZILtoid1991 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is election interference.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

How so? It's a private Nazi website.

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[–] Diplomjodler3 22 points 5 months ago

If you keep using the shitter site, don't be surprised if you get shit sprayed all over you.

[–] MehBlah 17 points 5 months ago

Twitter is for chumps. I blocked it on my home network along with all the other trash. PFBlocker is great.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I have never heard anything good about Twitter. Just the format of following people instead of topics seems like a narcissistic’s dream.

People used it when they shouldn’t have before Elon and people will continue now.

Some just like shitty systems I guess.

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