World Bank halts paid advertising on X after CBS News finds its promoted ad under racist content.

[Lunabell]

Source: CBS News

The World Bank has ceased all paid advertising on Elon Musk's social media platform X, which was formerly Twitter, after a CBS News investigation found promoted advertisements from the organization showing up under a racist post from an account that prolifically posts pro-Nazi and white nationalist content.

CBS News found a verified X account with more than 115,000 followers that had posted a racist image alongside a post praising Europe's colonization of Africa. CBS News is not publicly identifying the accounts spreading racist content on X.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/world-bank-advertising-elon-musk-x-racism-pro-nazi-accounts/

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Wah! Wah! Wah! You gonna cry about this, too, musky? Nobody likes you and your cars suck.

[underpants]

1. I feel another lawsuit from Elon coming

[Lunabell]

2. Baseless lawsuits.

He told advertisers to go get fucked. No real judge will allow these to go through the courts. Maybe cannon or pirro will, but not real judges.

[underpants]

10. He went court shopping

I heard something on NPR about this a few weeks ago. He’s suing media Matters and he shut down a marketing group (for small businesses) in a court room in Ft. Worth I think. None of the parties are in anyway located in Texas but the court accepted the cases and has ruled for him a couple of times already. Real reaches from the report I heard.

[4lbs]

3. *GASP* Something tarnished by the scent of Musk shows racist content?

I'm shocked I tell ya! Shocked!

[Lunabell]

4. muskyboy can't be a racist!

He has black friends, er well, employees.

[Lulu KC]

5. Hold on

The World Bank has paid advertising? Why?

I am just not imagining either the investors or the recipients of The World Bank to be influenced by a paid advertisement. Aren't they kind of above the world of commerce?

I live a mostly ad-free life so I am really out of the loop on this one, but for the many decades I lived before figuring out how to live ad-free, I don't recall ever seeing anything from The World Bank anywhere.

[erronis]

6. And still many businesses and "important" people such as politicians use the shitter

as a way to get their messages out.

I'll assume (ass of u and me) that these groups understand that the musk-rat can fiddle with the messages and deliveries as he wants. If he decides to cut the spigot totally, where will those poor people go? Facefuck?

[Cheezoholic]

7. If Truth not-so-much Social has a legitimate technical infrastructure, might be a good buy for pennies on the dollar

in a couple months for some interested legitimate social media groups once the Orange Dragon is slain.

[erronis]

9. You can bet big on that if you want. Maybe they'll throw in some NFTs if you act quickly.

[C0RI0LANUS]

8. The World Bank just found out about the racism promoted on "X"? Wow.

BTW: NBC beat CBS to the punch on this in April 2024:

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/x-twitter-elon-musk-nazi-extremist-white-nationalist-accounts-rcna145020