Technology

37750 readers

249 users here now

A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.

Remember the overriding ethos on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. Each user you encounter here is a person, and should be treated with kindness (even if they’re wrong, or use a Linux distro you don’t like). Personal attacks will not be tolerated.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

alyaza@beehaw.org

TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.org

gyrfalcon@beehaw.org

rs5th@beehaw.org

coldredlight@beehaw.org

Los@beehaw.org

SemioticStandard@beehaw.org

TheRtRevKaiser@kbin.social

remington@beehaw.org

120

X runs ‘timeline takeover’ ad promoting anti-trans film (techcrunch.com)

submitted 1 year ago by JRepin@lemmy.ml to c/technology@beehaw.org

30 comments fedilink hide all child comments

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/7435108

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.”

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] ExLisper@linux.community 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

One of Musk's kids is trans so this is shitty on another level.

[–] Craftkorb@feddit.de 20 points 1 year ago

It's not like Musk gives a single fuck about other people.

[–] ShaunaTheDead@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

And he constantly deadnames and misgenders her because he's such a huge piece of shit, even to his own daughter.