The Washington Post Will Pause Its Advertising on X - Washingtonian
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The move comes after Elon Musk endorsed the Pizzagate conspiracy theory.

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  • nucleative@lemmy.worldEnglish
    412·
    7 months ago

    As more of these are announced, fewer casual twitter lurkers will visit the site. Then it will become socially unacceptable for remaining brands to stay, and they’ll leave too. Prolific twitter posters will find they no longer have any reach, so they’ll just fade out.

    Seems like the toilet is mid flush.

    • Thorny_Insight@lemm.eeEnglish
      153·
      7 months ago

      By what logic does advertisers leaving incentivize users to stop going there aswell?

      • GeneralVincent@lemmy.worldEnglish
        111·
        7 months ago

        Because it’s not all advertisers leaving, there will still be ads just from less scrupulous companies. And because Elon is pushing the site to be more right wing, probably more right wing advertisers. Some users won’t like that

  • qooqie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    182·
    7 months ago

    I always considered WaPo fairly left leaning so I’m kind of surprised they were advertising at all on X as of late

    • Pips@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      51·
      7 months ago

      It’s traditionally conservative but more frequently has been endorseing candidates left of center since the right wing is batshit. They overall supported Obama, but frankly Obama is about as centrist as they come. There was a very long stint in the 00s and 10s where they would publish more conservative, hawkish pieces over any news to the contrary.

    • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
      82·
      7 months ago

      They are temporarily against racism. At least until people stop paying attention

  • Tattorack@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2816·
    7 months ago

    Are we going to read about each and every single company that stops advertising on Twatter?

      • thecrotch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        66·
        7 months ago

        Yeah, if he doesn’t want to read corporate drama and musk spam he should just go to a technology sub instead

    • Maalus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1114·
      7 months ago

      But it’s so much about Technology!!¡!!!

      Ffs this sub should get real moderators who actually care to remove things according to their own rules

        • Maalus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          7 months ago

          So? A mod could remove an article. If the bot keeps posting articles that break the rules, the bot should be banned till the programmer can correct it to only post tech articles.

  • Gork@lemm.eeEnglish
    62·
    7 months ago

    Would that change, though, if the billionaires themselves intervene? Elon can phone his buddy (?) Bezos to reverse the decision.

    • Lexi Sneptaur@pawb.socialEnglish
      124·
      7 months ago

      I doubt they’re pals. Their relationship seems to be very adversarial. Everyone hates musk and he sees them as a threat. Bezos is a neoliberal. Musk is a fascist. There is a difference, at least as far as optics are concerned.

  • DreBeast@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    7 months ago

    That’ll send a message. Better watch out Elon or Jeff will pull the plug