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Re:X Has Become a 'Global Sewer,' Mayor of Paris Says by theultdev on Monday November 27, 2023 @05:48PM (#38439617)
Yes you can replicate it by following very controversial accounts and business accounts and scrolling a lot until you find an ad and a controversial statement beside each other, as the logs show they did.

It doesn't represent an actual experience though, it's deliberate and misleading since that curation was left out of the report.

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Re:X Has Become a 'Global Sewer,' Mayor of Paris Says by davidw on Monday November 27, 2023 @06:13PM (#38439912)
Giant companies like Apple don't just do something like that on a complete whim based on a report from a relatively tiny organization.

Probably also has something to do with the kinds of ugly stuff the owner of Twitter has been boosting lately.

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Re:X Has Become a 'Global Sewer,' Mayor of Paris Says by theultdev on Monday November 27, 2023 @06:16PM (#38439930)
Don't they? Well they all did at once after the relatively tiny report.

Well anyway, let's all continue speculating...

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Re:X Has Become a 'Global Sewer,' Mayor of Paris Says by davidw on Monday November 27, 2023 @06:50PM (#38440267)
It turns out large companies don't like to see their brand near hateful things and they were probably able to verify that internally. Apple has quite a few more resources than Media Matters.
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Re:X Has Become a 'Global Sewer,' Mayor of Paris Says by theultdev on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @12:11PM (#38448081)
More speculation, that's why you used the word "probably".
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