To further test how much Twitter was actually moderating the platform, Caraballo said she also searched racial slurs, and found ads next to hateful content that she believed advertisers would definitely want to steer clear of. “They appear to have restricted that specific search, and not anything else - so they haven’t moderated the actual content,” she told the outlet. However, she altered her search to “last battle Europa” the following day and saw the same results. In a separate tweet, Caraballo showed how other searches of the movie pulled up results sprinkled with ads from other prominent brands, like the NBA, Bitdefender, Freddie Mac and betterme.Īfter Caraballo shared what she found, she told Insider that Twitter appeared to remove the ads from the specific search. The cost of a blue checkmark now ranges from $8 a month for individual web users to a starting price of $1,000 monthly for an organization. Verification is no longer a free feature only given to a well-known figure or brand so they can be distinguished from imposters.Īs of April, any sole user or organization with a Twitter profile can purchase a prized badge through Twitter Blue. For the five weeks between April 1 and May, Twitter’s ad revenue reportedly dipped 59% from 2022 after advertisers cited worries that the app would be chaotic under Musk’s rule. One image showed an Adobe ad for its “Changemakers Series” addressing issues like mental health appear above a clip from “Europa: The Last Battle” posted by a verified user. “Sure enough, when I was searching for it, I thought: ‘you’ve got to be kidding me.’ There are literal ads appearing right below all of this content,” Caraballo told the outlet. Typing the film’s title into Twitter’s search bar not only pulled up results relating to the movie posted by verified accounts, but included ads from the likes of Adobe, Microsoft and Disney, according to screenshots uploaded by Caraballo. “I wondered how prevalent this was on here, so I just decided to search for it on Twitter,” she said. film draws on for 12 hours, and seemingly violates Twitter’s “hateful conduct” rules, which prohibits users from directly attacking others “on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, caste, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability or serious disease.”Ĭaraballo said she saw clips of the movie being uploaded to Twitter. During her research, Harvard Law School clinical instructor Alejandra Caraballo noticed that ads for the likes of Adobe, Harper Collins’ kids division, Microsoft and Disney appeared adjacent to antisemitic tweets. “Europa: The Last Battle” is a 2017 propaganda film that relies on antisemitic themes that blame Jewish people for causing both world wars as part of a scheme to create the nation of Israel, Insider reported. “I was seeing ads appearing on my feed right above posts from White Lives Matter California,” Caraballo told the outlet, referring to an anti-Black Lives Matter organization she follows for research purposes.Ĭaraballo reported that no ads appeared on White Lives Matter’s actual profile, “but one of the things I noticed is that they had retweeted portions of ‘Europa: The Last Battle.'” However, the extremism researcher said ads from mainstream firms like Disney and Microsoft were popping up next to neo-Nazi propaganda, according to Insider. Neo-Nazi propaganda continues to find a home on Twitter and is adjacent to ads from major companies as advertisers slowly slowly return to Elon Musk’s social media platform, according to a report.Ĭivil rights attorney and Harvard Law School clinical instructor Alejandra Caraballo said she has witnessed an increase in ads since Musk tapped NBCUniversal’s advertising superstar Linda Yaccarino to head Twitter last month. Zuckerberg, Musk have been ripping each other for years behind closed doors as billionaires talk possible ‘cage match’Įlon Musk has zero chance in Mark Zuckerberg cage match, UFC legend says Titanic sub Snopes fail on Elon Musk shows ‘fact checks’ = lefty bull OceanGate listed job posting for ‘submersible pilot’ during doomed Titan rescue efforts
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