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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
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Subject: Re: apple resumes advertising on x
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:21:33 -0800
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On 2025-02-13 14:09, badgolferman wrote:
> Apple this month started advertising on X for the first time in more than a
> year. The company had stopped advertising on the social media platform in
> November 2023 following controversial remarks made by its owner Elon Musk.
> 
> Apple is one of many major brands that have paused advertising on X at
> least once, with others including Disney, Coca-Cola, Sony, IBM, Comcast,
> and more. Disney and many other brands have cautiously returned to
> advertising on the platform since.
> 
> Musk acquired Twitter in 2022, and rebranded the platform as X the
> following year. Under his ownership, X has taken a softer approach to
> content moderation, allowing extremist views to proliferate on the
> platform. Also, disgraced rapper Kanye West made a series of racist and
> sexist posts on X last week, before deactivating his account.
> 
> Apple's CEO Tim Cook, and other senior executives at the company like
> marketing chief Greg Joswiak, have maintained a presence on
> Twitter-turned-X ever since Musk acquired the platform.
> 
> https://www.macrumors.com/2025/02/12/apple-resumes-advertising-on-x/

Yup.

That's how the descent into a dictatorship begins...