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Elon Musk's X pushes Trump tags on all US users (www.salon.com)

submitted 4 months ago by JRepin@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] thefrankring@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (7 children)

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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[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 8 points 4 months ago

this is forcing

[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 8 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 5 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] nomous@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] polle@feddit.org 2 points 3 months ago

Isn't that illegal in some way?

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