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If Twitter can be so easily blackmailed by advertisers, what do we think about traditional media, where Pfizer is often the biggest advertiser? Sorry if I am b
by hammock 4y ago
If Twitter can be so easily blackmailed by advertisers, what do we think about traditional media, where Pfizer is often the biggest advertiser?
Sorry if I am being dangerous/spreading misinformation, just asking the question
- pjc50 4y agoThis is a real problem! I remember Peter Oborne resigning from the Telegraph over failing to cover HSBC because they were an advertiser. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/feb/17/peter-oborne-telegraph-hsbc-coverage-fraud-readers https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/feb/17/peter-oborne-t... The reverse is quite clear in how various Gulf states like Qatar buy lots of advertising for the state as a whole .. with the unspoken assumption that their poor human rights record won't be mentioned as much.
- andsoitis 4y agoBlackmailing is when you demand payment/value from someone in return for not revealing damaging information about them. How are advertisers blackmailing Twitter?
- namelessoracle 4y agoWhat logical reason would Pfizer have other than damaging information being revealed about them? They sell medicine, people don't pick what medicine they get for the most part, their doctor does. (yes there are exceptions) The number of people who would push back against a medicine because "pfizer had ads next a twitter post with racial epithets" seem vanishingly small.
- hammock 4y agoI was only picking up on the term as used by OP. The reality may be closer to extortion (in the colloquial sense)