For over two years, we’ve been asking advertisers if they’re aware of being placed on Breitbart. Over 4,060 of them have decided to remove themselves because of exactly what @sarahkendzior encapsulates so perfectly here. Rhetoric matters. https://t.co/0yBNClZctc
techplato (@techplato)
Today, @YouTube banned Gavin McInnes. Almost two years after he posted this. Thanks for being all over it, guys. https://t.co/WVv9MEDyIq
slpng_giants (@slpng_giants)
@Sethrogen @jack It’s why @Jack won’t boot Nazis unless the news reports it. It’s why @YouTube won’t issue Alex Jones a 3rd strike despite breaking their Terms on harassment everyday. It’s why @facebook won’t remove Breitbart from their ad network despite clear violations of their Standards.
slpng_giants (@slpng_giants)
Good morning. Thousands of children who were separated from their parents at the border still haven’t been reunited. American corporations are still materially supporting the agency that did this. Pass it down.
slpng_giants (@slpng_giants)
Imagine being afraid to talk about your own sexual assault and then seeing the president of the United States at a rally with a large audience making fun of a woman who claims she was assaulted. This has implications so far beyond the SCOTUS situation.
slpng_giants (@slpng_giants)
Okay, @jack. So this Bishop was banned for using a term that he has every right to say as a Black man, but Alex Jones remains on your platform after harassing Sandy Hook parents and threatening Robert Mueller?? Please tell us what Terms of Service allow this to happen. https://t.co/d1M9ozR55g
ResistResource (@ResistResource)
@Sethrogen @jack It’s why @Jack won’t boot Nazis unless the news reports it. It’s why @YouTube won’t issue Alex Jones a 3rd strike despite breaking their Terms on harassment everyday. It’s why @facebook won’t remove Breitbart from their ad network despite clear violations of their Standards.
TenshiAkari12 (@TenshiAkari12)
@Sethrogen @jack @YouTube @facebook It may not be that these founders and CEOs like @jack don’t give a fuck, it’s that they give a whole lot more of a fuck about giving themselves many more millions, which is even fucking worse.
notyourneighb0r (@notyourneighb0r)
Retweeted Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants): @Sethrogen @jack @YouTube @facebook It may not be that these founders and CEOs like @jack don’t give a fuck, it’s that they give a whole lot more of a fuck about giving themselves many more millions, which is even fucking worse.
PatrickECooley (@PatrickECooley)
Cool that @jack continues to talk about cleaning up this platform, yet issues @verified status to people who both 1) Marched at Charlottesville at Unite The Right and; 2) Tweets about the virtues of killing journalists. Way to go, @TwitterSupport! Doing a bang up job! https://t.co/40M6fvNWWW
funkykomadina (@funkykomadina)
@ghostoflenin @Sethrogen @jack @YouTube @facebook We’ve been asking them to follow their own Terms Of Service, which *they* have written, as a guide, but they refuse to even do that for fear of looking like they’re “taking sides”. The “voices are being silenced” goon squad has ensured that this bad faith argument takes hold.
carmen_armillas (@carmen_armillas)
How does a company like @northropgrumman find out that one of their employees with a security clearance actively targeted Black protesters in Charlottesville and keep him on staff? How does a school like @UCLA not sever ties immediately instead of putting him on “leave”? https://t.co/8riXgjuoib
desertsongnm (@desertsongnm)
Good morning. Thousands of children who were separated from their parents at the border still haven’t been reunited. American corporations are still materially supporting the agency that did this. Pass it down.
MrsLogan4evr (@MrsLogan4evr)
@krassenstein @RoArquette @RealAlexJones @TeamYouTube @YouTube It is and it always was. We shouldn’t give credit where credit isn’t due. @TeamYouTube has passed the buck again and, despite dozens of continued violations of their Terms of Service, they refuse to take any truly meaningful steps. Let’s not pat them on the back for this.
soundscaper (@soundscaper)
This is an incredible thread. @tobi, CEO of @Shopify, attempts to explain that he continues to help monetize Breitbart because they don’t break his Acceptable Use Policy, but when confronted with actual examples of how they do, he refuses to respond. Classic. https://t.co/H3vPFhfMMX
frankdpi (@frankdpi)
Good article about a bad situation. Today, @visitmilwaukee had to pause their entire social media buy because the @facebook ad network placed them on Breitbart without their knowledge. Why is Breitbart on the Facebook ad network? It’s anyone’s guess. https://t.co/F5dW0h4QBv
calicolocali (@calicolocali)
It’s outrageous that a person can inspire someone to go shoot up a pizza joint on @YouTube and still have an account. It is a crime that @TeamYouTube is letting the same guy use that same account to pull the same crap with a different target. https://t.co/CIHcStvT5s
samches (@samches)
@slpng_giants Imagine being afraid to talk about your own sexual assault and then seeing the president of the United States at a rally with a large audience making fun of a woman who claims she was assaulted. This has implications so far beyond the... https://t.co/1kRsvAjiw8
Nyrhalahotep (@Nyrhalahotep)
Amazing! Looks like @tobi, the CEO of @Shopify, doesn’t want to hear from us anymore. Seems like he’d rather cater to Breitbart than hear from anyone that he’s helping monetize extremism. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://t.co/bPufIC4tN5
BBuzzzzz (@BBuzzzzz)
Okay, @jack. So this Bishop was banned for using a term that he has every right to say as a Black man, but Alex Jones remains on your platform after harassing Sandy Hook parents and threatening Robert Mueller?? Please tell us what Terms of Service allow this to happen. https://t.co/d1M9ozR55g
carolyn_pearl (@carolyn_pearl)
@Sethrogen @jack @YouTube @facebook It may not be that these founders and CEOs like @jack don’t care, it’s that they care a whole lot more about giving themselves many more millions, which is even worse.
slpng_giants (@slpng_giants)
@Sethrogen @jack Don’t we know it, man. We’ve been reporting this shit for a year and a half with little movement. You can’t escape the fact that racism and harassment equals traffic equals a higher stock price equals millions in their pockets.
dani_outloud (@dani_outloud)
$$$$$$$$$$ RT @slpng_giants: @Sethrogen @jack It’s why @Jack won’t boot Nazis unless the news reports it. It’s why @YouTube won’t issue Alex Jones a 3rd strike despite breaking their Terms on harassment everyday. It’s why @facebook won’t remove Breitbart from their ad (1/2)
RachieNMN (@RachieNMN)
Imagine being afraid to talk about your own sexual assault and then seeing the president of the United States at a rally with a large audience making fun of a woman who claims she was assaulted. This has implications so far beyond the SCOTUS situation.
Annatlast (@Annatlast)
For 2 years, we’ve asked @Tobi, the CEO of @Shopify, why he continues to help monetize Breitbart by powering their store. He’s always provided “free speech” arguments that don’t apply to his company instead of just admitting he wants their money. He’s now blocked us. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://t.co/DdboIWHP0W
annie_83704 (@annie_83704)
Retweeted Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants): @Sethrogen @jack It’s why @Jack won’t boot Nazis unless the news reports it. It’s why @YouTube won’t issue Alex Jones a 3rd strike despite breaking their Terms on... https://t.co/3a2qm0vfIY
PatrickECooley (@PatrickECooley)
When you’ve continued to run your customers’ ads on Breitbart despite thousands of them asking you to stop, won’t enforce your own standards on Alex Jones and ran Russian ads potentially tilting an election, it must be kind of awesome that you only lose 20%. https://t.co/TLqaOAGlKS
Paul42980402 (@Paul42980402)
@ghostoflenin @Sethrogen @jack @YouTube @facebook Agreed. Founders of these companies started them with the ideological belief that their platforms should be open to everyone. Which is awesome until they are taken over by bad actors. Now that they have, they have, they have no idea how to respond.
Flora_Madame (@Flora_Madame)
This is unreal. The Alex Jones fiasco is just the most high profile case of the ways the @facebook is blowing it when it comes to hate, conspiracy theories and harassment. They may have lost money yesterday, but they lost their morals long ago. https://t.co/RVC2PgaP1T
DianeAnanda (@DianeAnanda)
The price that @facebook is willing to pay for their relentless defense of Infowars is stunning: Jones will continue to dare them with increasingly worse rhetoric. Trolls, knowing they can get away with anything, will overrun their platform. Decent people will continue to bolt https://t.co/G8m9HBfwOc
wtf_imtooold (@wtf_imtooold)
@krassenstein @RealAlexJones This isn’t a ban. It’s another half-measure by @TeamYouTube to avoid having to ban him permanently which, according to the @YouTube Terms Of Service, he has earned many times over. He’ll be back and the rhetoric will only get worse because he knows he can get away with anything.
ElizabethRowin (@ElizabethRowin)
Retweeted Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants): @Sethrogen @jack Don’t we know it, man. We’ve been reporting this shit for a year and a half with little movement. You can’t escape the fact that racism and harassment... https://t.co/UArggmyESQ
PatrickECooley (@PatrickECooley)
@slpng_giants @Sethrogen @jack @YouTube @facebook it isn't simply profit motive but also ideological motivation that keeps *every* social media platform friendly to fascism
luigibleu (@luigibleu)
This is part of a false narrative that has been pushed for the last year. It is by design. By talking about mythical “shadow bans” and painting the suspension of users for racism and conspiracy theories as political, it keeps social media companies from enforcing their own rules. https://t.co/FbkyxGDtmi
nuxnix (@nuxnix)
This is an incredible thread. @tobi, CEO of @Shopify, attempts to explain that he continues to help monetize Breitbart because they don’t break his Acceptable Use Policy, but when confronted with actual examples of how they do, he refuses to respond. Classic.
slpng_giants (@slpng_giants)
Advertisers, knowing they will reach fewer and fewer people, will slow their spend. Their stock price will continue to dive. And all for some cheap, fake boner pill-selling huckster. Good luck, @facebook.
dbble5 (@dbble5)