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I tried finding an unbiased take on this. From my understanding, Media Matters created a new account, purposely searched for and found "extreme content" (some c

I tried finding an unbiased take on this. From my understanding, Media Matters created a new account, purposely searched for and found "extreme content" (some conspiracies say they made the content themselves to follow), and kept refreshing until the X Ai showed an ad next to one of those messages. They then used their political power with the democratic party to get companies to stop advertising.

superchroma 3y ago
Ok, devil's advocate, if you were trying to find evidence for the premise, that is probably how you would go about inducing that behavior. Given twitter's massive userbase, it would be expected that there are no new behaviors under the sun. I suppose that the point is that it can happen. Twitter probably claim to advertisers that it can't, and now it is revealed that the nuance is that it's apparently extremely unlikely and you basically have to induce it to happen. Which, knowing Elon, may or may not be true.
- TheCaptain4815 3y ago
  Agreed, but these aren't "solved" issues for any social media company, yet it's X taking all the political heat. I get shoplifting videos on my instagram feed and half the comments are extremely racist, followed by an advertisement. I'm sure facebook is the same and god knows what goes on with Tiktok.
klyrs 3y ago
They had a reasonable expectation that the large increase in public expressions of Nazism would be juxtaposed with ads from companies who do not want to be associated with such content. So, they tested their hypothesis, and found evidence in its favor. They didn't hack, they didn't fabricate, they observed. And then, they exercised their free speech and free association, and showed this evidence to the companies in question (who clearly didn't like what they saw). What's wrong with that?

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I tried finding an unbiased take on this. From my understanding, Media Matters created a new account, purposely searched for and found "extreme content" (some c

by TheCaptain4815 3y ago

superchroma 3y ago
Ok, devil's advocate, if you were trying to find evidence for the premise, that is probably how you would go about inducing that behavior. Given twitter's massive userbase, it would be expected that there are no new behaviors under the sun. I suppose that the point is that it can happen. Twitter probably claim to advertisers that it can't, and now it is revealed that the nuance is that it's apparently extremely unlikely and you basically have to induce it to happen. Which, knowing Elon, may or may not be true.
- TheCaptain4815 3y ago
  Agreed, but these aren't "solved" issues for any social media company, yet it's X taking all the political heat. I get shoplifting videos on my instagram feed and half the comments are extremely racist, followed by an advertisement. I'm sure facebook is the same and god knows what goes on with Tiktok.
klyrs 3y ago
They had a reasonable expectation that the large increase in public expressions of Nazism would be juxtaposed with ads from companies who do not want to be associated with such content. So, they tested their hypothesis, and found evidence in its favor. They didn't hack, they didn't fabricate, they observed. And then, they exercised their free speech and free association, and showed this evidence to the companies in question (who clearly didn't like what they saw). What's wrong with that?