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People have replicated the results. Which isn't surprising, given how much trash content that place has these days.

Also: does anyone think those big accounts just up and left after one shoestring organization published something?

They most likely replicated the results themselves.

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Is there a link or study for the replicated results? I'd like to see it.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/27/elons-censorial-lawsuit-...

Quite the stretch there bud, from a very biased Techdirt none-the-less.

You could make an actual argument with real points that people could consider and evaluate rather than pretending like everyone else is an idiot and you have some grand truth that is simultaneously so obvious that you don’t need to state it and is somehow something that nobody else has a clue what you’re talking about.

Yes you can replicate it by following very controversial accounts and business accounts and scrolling a lot until you find an ad and a controversial statement beside each other, as the logs show they did.

It doesn't represent an actual experience though, it's deliberate and misleading since that curation was left out of the report.

Giant companies like Apple don't just do something like that on a complete whim based on a report from a relatively tiny organization.

Probably also has something to do with the kinds of ugly stuff the owner of Twitter has been boosting lately.

Don't they? Well they all did at once after the relatively tiny report.

Well anyway, let's all continue speculating...

It turns out large companies don't like to see their brand near hateful things and they were probably able to verify that internally. Apple has quite a few more resources than Media Matters.

More speculation, that's why you used the word "probably".

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