Two brands suspend advertising on X after their ads appeared next to pro-Nazi content

Ads for brands including Adobe, Gilead Sciences, the University of Maryland’s football team, New York University Langone Hospital and NCTA-The Internet and Television Association were run alongside tweets from the account that had garnered hundreds of thousands of views, CNN observed.

Spokespeople for NCTA and pharmaceutical company Gilead said that they immediately paused their ad spending on X after CNN flagged their ads on the pro-Nazi account.

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You mean just like placed next to regular Twitter content?

NCTA and Gilead are an evil organization and an evil corporation. They should feel right at home with the Nazis.

Apple still advertises on Twitter. We need a website that tracks all of these companies that still advertise on that pro-nazi platform.

Someone needs to edit their new "logo" and add four lines at the extremities, just to see what it would look like.

You mean they appeared on Twitter?

I couldn't help but catch the line that

Ads for brands including Adobe, Gilead Sciences, the University of Maryland’s football team, New York University Langone Hospital and NCTA-The Internet and Television Association were run alongside tweets from the account that had garnered hundreds of thousands of views, CNN observed.

And there's literally an entire black market of veterinarians recommending a very specific antiviral to cat parents unfortunate enough to have their cats be among the 1% of the global cat population whose mutation of feline enteric coronavirus (FECV) to feline coronavirus (FCoV) brings about Feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), and that specific life-saving treatment is behind Gilead Sciences' refusal to release their patent to veterinary use...

"Since FIP is usually fatal and there are no approved treatments available, GS-441524 has reportedly been sold on the black market and used by pet owners to treat affected cats, although Gilead Sciences has refused to license the drug for veterinary use."

This dumpster fire keeps getting hotter and hotter.

Two groups of "people" who deserve each other soulless brands and elon.

When the platform you are on can't seem to figure out its own brand, maybe it is time to move on?

Don't worry Linda Yaccarino will sort it all out

FWIW, the Nazi account has now been suspended.

Glad they suspended their advertising. A good decision.

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Hmm

The only surefire way for these company to control what their content appears next to is to rely on themselves. I expect them to start experimenting with the Fediverse, especially Mastodon, soon.

... Shitposting on Lemmy is still superior for organic marketing though, especially for movies.

One of the brands is Gilead Science. I know the name is based on the Balm of Gilead, but after The Handmaid's Tale the name has a nasty resonance...

How about a disclaimer for companies like people have when they play online. "Statements and opinions made by users do not reflect those of X" ESRB for ad companies to get it.

I'm glad companies are pulling out of X but I've never understood this reasoning for removing your ads tbh.

Every single person who sees your ad knows that it has just been served by the website and has nothing to do with the post/content or author.

Like on youtube, why do companies not wanna advertise on a video with cussing? We all know that the language used in the video has nothing to do with the ad playing before.

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