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.
"Paused" 🤣
Just gotta let the smoke blow over then it's business as usual.
Fuck Adobe and their greedy CEO.
Here comes the waterworks from the alt-right fanboys
You mean just like placed next to regular Twitter content?
It's a Nazi bar now.
Bro, you better check your privilege and stop deadnaming X
The only socially acceptable deadnaming
NCTA and Gilead are an evil organization and an evil corporation. They should feel right at home with the Nazis.
But being honest is bad for business. Need to keep the beard on.
Someone needs to edit their new "logo" and add four lines at the extremities, just to see what it would look like.
Edit: Fashtag freeze peach
It doesn't look as good as you would think. The spacing between the lines in the "X" logo aren't evenly distributed, which means the added lines aren't spaced properly either.
Take my word on it, the end result looks more like a dancing cactus than a specific symbol used during World War II.
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...
This dumpster fire keeps getting hotter and hotter.
When the platform you are on can't seem to figure out its own brand, maybe it is time to move on?
Two groups of "people" who deserve each other soulless brands and elon.
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