IBM suspends advertising on X after report says ads ran next to antisemitic content

www.cnbc.com IBM suspends advertising on X after report says ads ran next to antisemitic content

IBM's announcement that it's halting ads on X came a day after Elon Musk boosted an antisemitic post on his platform

IBM suspends advertising on X after report says ads ran next to antisemitic content::IBM's announcement that it's halting ads on X came a day after Elon Musk boosted an antisemitic post on his platform

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Man, when you're too Nazi for IBM...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
- To be fair every german corporation collaborated. Ibm just saw a way to make a quick buck
  
  Ibm just saw a way to make a quick buck
  
  We just created a bunch of amoral, immortal billion dollar monstrosities and allowed them to amass unimaginable power. Who knew they would be used for evil?
  
  We punished individual people who collaborated, gave orders, and generally aided atrocities.
  
  Somehow it's fine if corporations are let off the hook? They should all have been dissolved at the time, their assets used for rebuilding and reparations.
I mean, yeah, they ran on X. Of course they ran next to antisemitic content. They also probably ran next to a lot of other hateful stuff. It’s X.
- LOL
Well there it is, showing advertisers their shit next to typical X content works. Start sharing those screen grabs and bleed out the cancer.
Next: Microsoft pulls ads from Parler and Hewlett Packard scales back presence on white nationalist murderer hangout Stormfront.

In other words: if you're just finding out now what a hell hole twitter has become, you're not paying attention to who you're paying.
It's time other advertisers, media outlets and public personalities leave the platform. We should hold them accountable for keeping it afloat.
Prior to October 2023 I would assume anti-Semitic propaganda would be something on Nazi level. Post October 2023 it could be “say no to arms for Israel” and it gets flagged as hate speech.

Based on the article though, it directly references Hitler which is crazy.
Does anyone know what IBM was advertising on X? Were they trying to sell incels and blue check grifters consulting services for implementing a hybrid cloud strategy? Is there a WatsonX.ai girlfriend experience?

Even ignoring politics, it just strikes me as odd that they were putting any of their ad spend into trolling internet sewers. Shouldn’t they be sponsoring golf tournaments and Jeopardy gimmicks instead? (And if not, are they advertising on Twitch? Because I kind of want to see someone speedrunning Super Metroid take a moment to tell everyone about how IBM’s AI tools can simplify their supply chain management.)
- If I had to wildly guess, I'd say recruiting/career opportunity ads. Demographic and interest-based targeting would be pretty effective at drilling down to the sorts of people you'd want to apply.
Let's just all stop using it. It's broken. My life, work and sense of self all improved after deleting my account

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