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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      11 months ago

      Oh I hate this argument.

      With an election year next year, politics is about to get shoe horned into everything with the “(insert subject) is politics” is justification.

      I think most people think of technology as scientific based rather than social media trends and events.

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        11 months ago

        I wouldn’t call the possibly intentional destruction of a social media infrastructure “social media trends and events.”