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Meta deletes Al Jazeera presenter’s profile after show criticising Israel

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Re: Meta deletes Al Jazeera presenter’s profile after show criticising Israel

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X's spat with the ADL revealed how substantial their lobby power is. That ad revenue plunged 60% due to their prejudices (against Elon and his management) testifies to a strong hold they have on media of all types. I don't trust Meta to reverse their behaviors like this, which they have likely done many, many times.

Not gonna lie, I'm not struggling to think of reasons why Twitter's ad revenue dropped that don't involve the ADL...

Would it explain why it fell in US and EU, but not Asia?

Re: Meta deletes Al Jazeera presenter’s profile after show criticising Israel

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X's spat with the ADL revealed how substantial their lobby power is. That ad revenue plunged 60% due to their prejudices (against Elon and his management) testifies to a strong hold they have on media of all types. I don't trust Meta to reverse their behaviors like this, which they have likely done many, many times.

Do you have sources on the X - ADL connection? I thought that was just a conspiracy theory.

Re: Meta deletes Al Jazeera presenter’s profile after show criticising Israel

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X's spat with the ADL revealed how substantial their lobby power is. That ad revenue plunged 60% due to their prejudices (against Elon and his management) testifies to a strong hold they have on media of all types. I don't trust Meta to reverse their behaviors like this, which they have likely done many, many times.

> X's spat with the ADL revealed how substantial their lobby power is.

Lol what? Advertisers literally pulled out because their ads showed up to actual Nazi, holocaust denying content. The ADL didn't (have to) do anything, the brands' brand safety teams did.

Re: Meta deletes Al Jazeera presenter’s profile after show criticising Israel

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X's spat with the ADL revealed how substantial their lobby power is. That ad revenue plunged 60% due to their prejudices (against Elon and his management) testifies to a strong hold they have on media of all types. I don't trust Meta to reverse their behaviors like this, which they have likely done many, many times.

Did you just really take Elon Musk's completely random figure of ads revenue drop as fact?

I'm sure you are a better authority to report on the company's revenue than the owner

Re: Meta deletes Al Jazeera presenter’s profile after show criticising Israel

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X's spat with the ADL revealed how substantial their lobby power is. That ad revenue plunged 60% due to their prejudices (against Elon and his management) testifies to a strong hold they have on media of all types. I don't trust Meta to reverse their behaviors like this, which they have likely done many, many times.

Few things are more emblematic of Musk’s descent into madness than tweeting to dozens of millions of his acolytes that the (((jews))) are engineering his failures.

Re: Meta deletes Al Jazeera presenter’s profile after show criticising Israel

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you just really take Elon Musk's completely random figure of ads revenue drop as fact?

I'm sure you are a better authority to report on the company's revenue than the owner

The drop isn’t nearly as up for debate as the cause is. Let’s not get distracted here.

Some people need more evidence than this before they place blame on a group with such a history of prejudice against them.

Hell, I’m from a country that is far less touchy about the plight of the Jewish people compared to, say, the US. But inferring anything from this correlation without considering the wider context is absurd.

GP very obviously thinks that using 2-3x more words to essentially say “Jews control the media” gives their comment more intellectual standing

Re: Meta deletes Al Jazeera presenter’s profile after show criticising Israel

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X's spat with the ADL revealed how substantial their lobby power is. That ad revenue plunged 60% due to their prejudices (against Elon and his management) testifies to a strong hold they have on media of all types. I don't trust Meta to reverse their behaviors like this, which they have likely done many, many times.

I must be mistaken, but your comment really sounds like you're blaming Twitter's revenue problems -- easily explained by mismanagement -- on an all powerful cabal of Jews.

Re: Meta deletes Al Jazeera presenter’s profile after show criticising Israel

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I know I'm naive: I don't understand why US companies are so sensitive to respecting Israel. I don't know why our gov is so sensitive to this either. Israel - like all countries - deserves criticism, no? This can't purely be about respecting the billions spent on US weapons to defend Israel, right? I genuinely do not understand, because I think they'd happily buy from the military anyway.

Re: Meta deletes Al Jazeera presenter’s profile after show criticising Israel

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not gonna lie, I'm not struggling to think of reasons why Twitter's ad revenue dropped that don't involve the ADL...

Would it explain why it fell in US and EU, but not Asia?

Are you saying the only plausible explanation is, "the Jews?"
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