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.”

  • PorkRollWobbly@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

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