Elon Musk Apparently Managed to Sue Unilever Into Advertising on X Again
Elon Musk Apparently Managed to Sue Unilever Into Advertising on X Again
X has claimed that a group of advertisers were illegally colluding against it by choosing not to advertise on the platform.
Unilever continued operating in Russia long after the Ukraine invasion as well. Will have to check if they still do even
They should start advertising again, but their ads only make fun of Musk/X. LOL
My brain is telling me there used to be an app that could scan barcodes and tell you about that company’s _______ profile.
A quick search returns, the now seemingly defunct, “GoodGuides”.
Anyone know of anything current?
I used Buycott, dunno if it's still around but I used it just a few years ago
It’s currently on iOS for 1.99
Not the same but app Goods Unite Us shows political contributions of companies. !goodsuniteus@lemmy.ca
And I used to use one that showed I’d the company still did business in Russia but I can’t recall the name.
I haven't used it in a while, so I don't know if it still works, but the one I had is called Buycott.
How is this even possible.
When there aren't proper protections in place for frivolous lawsuits. It costs them more to fight than it would to just advertise on the platform. Time for Ben & Jerry's to make an "eat the rich" flavor with Musk's face on the carton to advertise on X!
I mean, lawsuits are still one of the best ways for regular people to hold powerful entities accountable, so I'm super leery of anything that purports to stop "frivolous" lawsuits. I think the real underlying problem here is we're expecting a for profit company to do the right thing in a market environment where doing the right thing isn't the most profitable course of action. What we need to do is change the market environment or find someone that's not a for profit corporation to do the right thing (both admittedly easier said than done).
Those with deep pockets can threaten expensive legal action even if they know they won't win, simply because those without deep pockets cannot afford to fight the legal battle without going bankrupt.
What is Unilever’s evil level, on a scale of Nestles?
Honestly for a multinational corp operating at the scale they operate that's a pretty good report card. They look like boy scouts compared with Nestle, Coca cola etc
No mention of paying for death squads, no forced child slavery ...
Doesn't mean you shouldn't boycott, just that there's a sliding scale and if you have to choose a Nestle product or a Unilever one is less evil.
I guess Unilever is just into that Nazi shit
...while also owning Ben and Jerry's, which just put out a flavor in honor of Kamala Harris.
Like many massive corporations, Unilever would like to appeal to the Nazis and people on the left so that everyone buys one of the eighteen billion products they own every day.
The funny part would be running said flavor ad on X
Did you miss the part where they were an unethical megacorporation?
If true, they deserve a consumer boycott. But it’s almost impossible to stop buying Unilever products, the list is endless. List of brands
For those unaware:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unilever_brands
It's staggering. It also shouldn't be legal.
Oh nice. I don't use anything on those lists other then Ben and Jerry's.
Yeah, breaking up Google and Amazon is cool, but how about Unilever, P&G, Nestle, etc.
Damn. This is not what Archimedes meant when he talked about moving the earth with a single lever.
Thanks. Just edited my post to include a link, then found your contribution.
They would deserve it regardless, but they're even harder to avoid than Nestle
Coca-Cola (or cough Volkswagen) does not want you to see Nazi content or dead bodies and think of them.
Too late
Also Mercedes, Porsche, and many others
If anyone wondered when the late stage capitalism was going to hit: you missed it.