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X runs ‘timeline takeover’ ad promoting anti-trans film (techcrunch.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Thursday on X (Twitter), all users saw the same pinned topic under the “What’s happening?” sidebar. As part of a “timeline takeover” — which gives advertisers “priority access to logged-in users’ first impression of the day” — conservative media nonprofit PragerU is promoting the hashtag “#DETRANS” to advertise its new film about “the stories of detransitioners.”

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s only if you live in the US though….the rest of the world doesn’t care that much for your local politics….so it won’t be “shoehorned” into all posts as there are internet users outside the USA….gasp

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Non American Internet users likely talk American politics just as much as Americans. Even if it is just to criticize Americans