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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They still post, they just don't buy ad space. The actual news is: More and more advertisers jump ship (IBM did, too), because they don't want to get in trouble financing unhinged extremist bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Notably, however, the EU Commission is on Mastodon. Would be great if a lot of the companies suspending their ads would also move over to Mastodon even if not fully.

https://social.network.europa.eu/@EU_Commission

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

They don't want the possible negative backlash of being associated with unhinged extremist bullshit. If unhinged extremist bullshit was popular enough to be profitable then they'd be all aboard. Corporations do whatever is profitable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fair enough, I still find it hard to see how it fits this comm, but it is a bit better in that context.