When do we defund NPR? Asking for a friend.
I get it, the Left is working overtime to somehow make Elon Musk the bad guy with his purchase of Twitter, and in doing so, trying to find a way to make the purchase look like a MAJOR mistake but this is just getting pathetic at this point. Writing about advertisers leaving Twitter? Trying to make it out to look like they’re leaving because mean old Musk is ‘allowing’ all people to have a voice on his platform, not just the privileged elite, as if free speech is somehow a bad thing?
We all see what they’re doing here, and it’s not because they care about the platform or making sure people are safe on it. They’re pissed at Musk because they can’t control him, they don’t own him, and he’s not playing along with the approved narrative like the former owners.
Nice of NPR to completely leave out the history about why advertisers have been leaving Twitter, and that it was a huge number of them back in SEPTEMBER (you know, under the old management) because their ads were alongside child sexual abuse material.
Note, the people b*tching about Musk and free speech seemed to be AOK with the CSAM on Twitter.
Eliza Bleu was good enough to call them all out … she’s the bomb.
You folks forgot to add that 30+ brands stopped advertising on Twitter in September, pre Musk, because Twitter had to email ALL advertisers to let them know they paid to potentially run ads next to child sexual abuse material. https://t.co/yjgNgpJcji
— Eliza (@elizableu) November 27, 2022
— Eliza (@elizableu) November 27, 2022
From Reuters:
Some major advertisers including Dyson, Mazda, Forbes and PBS Kids have suspended their marketing campaigns or removed their ads from parts of Twitter because their promotions appeared alongside tweets soliciting child pornography, the companies told Reuters.
DIRECTV and Thoughtworks also told Reuters late on Wednesday they have paused their advertising on Twitter.
Brands ranging from Walt Disney Co (DIS.N), NBCUniversal (CMCSA.O) and Coca-Cola Co (KO.N) to a children’s hospital were among more than 30 advertisers that appeared on the profile pages of Twitter accounts peddling links to the exploitative material, according to a Reuters review of accounts identified in new research about child sex abuse online from cybersecurity group Ghost Data.
You’d think the companies that stayed after this was discovered would be the bad guys, right?
Any brand that stayed after THAT seems mighty suspicious.
— Eliza (@elizableu) November 27, 2022
Mighty suspicious indeed.
Also, I caught Mehdi Hasan tweeting this Reuter’s article without mentioning that it was from SEPTEMBER …
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) November 26, 2022
When I called him out he claimed he’d been speaking out against it for a long time. I offered to share the many tweets or segments he claimed existed where he was doing just that because hey, I try to be honest and if he was trying to be helpful tweeting that story out two months later without mentioning that it was old I should acknowledge that.
So far he has yet to send me any tweets or segments.
I’m not holding my breath.
