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Meta and X Approve AI Ads Referencing Nazi War Crimes Ahead of German Elections, Research Finds (www.adweek.com)

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The ad approvals come as the European Commission investigates both companies for violating European tech laws. Elon Musk has also highly promoted far-right politics at X, and X CEO Linda Yaccarino reportedly warned major firms like Interpublic Group to invest in ads on the platform, the Wall Street Journal reports. Meta, meanwhile, recently reversed its third-party moderation policy.

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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 3 months ago

The subhead is

The ads promoted extremist hate speech

It wasn't clear to me from the title if "referencing Nazi war crimes" was a good or bad thing (as in, "don't let history repeat itself" seems a good message, but that's apparently not the perspective the ad was pushing...).