NAACP Calls On Twitter Advertisers To Pull Ads As Trump Account Restored
This is a few days old but glad to see this.
Posted on Sun, Nov 20th, 2022 by Jason Miciak
NAACP Calls On Twitter Advertisers To Pull Ads As Trump Account Restored
https://www.politicususa.com/2022/11/20/naacp-twitter-advertisers.html
No, “the people” have not “spoken.” A poll was taken on Twitter over a full day, without any notice as to the timing nor the stakes and without any real opportunity for an educational campaign as to the consequences of either “vote.”
Musk has spoken.
Now others want to be heard, including the NAACP, which on Saturday night called all advertisers to pause their campaigns on Twitter to ensure that they are not “still funding Twitter” after Musk restored account access to Donald Trump, who was effectively banned from all social media on January 8th, 2021, two days after the attack on the Capitol. The NAACP’s statement reads:
In Elon Musk’s Twittersphere, you can incite an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, which led to the deaths of multiple people, and still be allowed to spew hate speech and violent conspiracies on his platform. Any advertisers still funding Twitter should immediately pause all advertising. If Elon Musk continues to run Twitter like this, using garbage polls that do not represent the American people and the needs of our democracy, God help us all.
Johnson added a tweet:
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Link to tweet
@DerrickNAACP
You are failing our democracy.
Your garbage poll means nothing. Did people outside the US vote? Did you reach out to marginalized communities—the targets of Trump’s rhetoric—for their input? Your followers don’t represent America.
If you run Twitter like this, God help us all.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
The people have spoken.
Trump will be reinstated.
Vox Populi, Vox Dei.
Oh, and the Latin quote Musk mangled there, to sound all high-falutin and 'nuff said, reads in full:
Which translated reads:
