X runs ‘timeline takeover’ ad promoting anti-trans film

Jure Repinc@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.world – 348 points –
X runs 'timeline takeover' ad promoting anti-trans film | TechCrunch
techcrunch.com

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.”

86

You are viewing a single comment

Anyone who hasn't moved on to mastodon at this point is a clown.

Don't forget the clown-car that is BlueSky, a bunch of clowns offloaded to that instead.

I'm amazed that bluesky hasn't opened to everyone yet. The opportunity is right freaking there!

I don't know for sure but I know their moderation is dogshit. I think they don't want to face down the deluge of Nazis like we have had to here, they'd rather be a clique-y cool kids clubhouse of Twitter brainrot