I can see how Media Matters got under Elon's skin:

"X’s ad targeting tool is apparently a piece of garbage that companies can’t count on to keep their advertisements from appearing alongside Holocaust denial, pro-Hitler content, and other bigotry.... The “root cause of X having antisemitic content next to Ads” is that there’s a ton of pro-Hitler, Holocaust denial, white nationalist, and neo-Nazi content on X for the ads to appear alongside."

mediamatters.org/elon-musk/its

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@fraying if you read the complaint, no, that's not the root of the issue.

It says specifically created accounts to follow only inflammatory content and companies, and the complaint also provided evidence that this is extremely rare.

So the root cause wouldn't be that there's a ton of Holocaust denial, but that Media Matters engaged measures to go out and find some, and even then had trouble finding enough to make the sensational story it wanted to tell.

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