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X runs ‘timeline takeover’ ad promoting anti-trans film (techcrunch.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.”

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Twitter already sucked in its own ways, but X-formerly-known-as-twitter is so utter shit I have a hard time imagining people browsing and enjoying it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

That's because you have a hard time imagining what it would be like to be one of the people who browses and enjoys it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Most people struggle to turn off their brain enough to be able to think as stupidly as those people do.

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