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NAACP and ADL call for Twitter ad boycott after Musk reinstates Trump
CBS News ^ | November 22, 2022 | BY KATE GIBSON

Posted on 11/22/2022 1:49:30 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Civil rights organizations are calling on advertisers to boycott Twitter in response to Elon Musk's weekend decision to reinstate former President Donald Trump's account on the social media site.

Banned from Twitter in 2021 because of concerns he could incite further violence following the January 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol, Trump was reinstated on the platform on Saturday based on the results of a Twitter poll posted by Musk.

Now, groups including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Anti-Defamation League say Twitter's billionaire owner is breaking his previous commitment to create a "content moderation council" before reinstating controversial accounts.

"In Elon Musk's Twittersphere, you can incite an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, which led to the deaths of multiple people, and still be allowed to spew hate speech and violent conspiracies on his platform," NAACP President Derrick Johnson said Saturday in a statement. "Any advertiser still funding Twitter should immediately pause all advertising."

"Unless and until Musk can be trusted to enforce Twitter's prior community standards, the platform is not safe for users or advertisers," the #StopToxicTwitter coalition, which includes Accountable Tech, Free Press and Media Matters for America, said in a statement. "For those still advertising on Twitter right now: know that you are contributing directly to an erratic billionaire's decimation of Twitter and its rapid devolution into utter chaos."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrats; elonmusk; marxists; musk; ohlawd; oyvey; shakedown; trump; truthsocial; twitter
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Content moderation a nice term for censorship.


21 posted on 11/22/2022 2:21:31 PM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Shut up you whining twits!


22 posted on 11/22/2022 2:25:09 PM PST by I want the USA back (Our news media isn't worth camel spit. Neither is the democrat party. )
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To: lee martell

It‘s true on steroids. I know and have worked with many of them. The more money they make, the stronger their leftist inclinations. It’s weird. Great people otherwise.


23 posted on 11/22/2022 2:25:53 PM PST by Codeflier (Screw Ukraine. America is burning, and we need to concentrate on our own collapse taking place.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Bullies again. Never could stand bullies.


24 posted on 11/22/2022 2:32:22 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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piss on them both


25 posted on 11/22/2022 2:33:43 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Protesting the reinstatement of the ONE person who has done the MOST, for minorities.

Buncha maroons.


26 posted on 11/22/2022 2:33:51 PM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I am always gratified to hear what our brothers at the north American Association of colored pimps, excuse me I meant the Negro anti-American communist party is up to


27 posted on 11/22/2022 2:35:19 PM PST by Jhadur ("You are not ready for immortality.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Has Trump even posted on Twatter yet?


28 posted on 11/22/2022 2:37:04 PM PST by dforest
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To: Sarah Barracuda

If Trump can maintain the discipline to speak on the issues, and refrain from personal Twitter wars, he’ll win in 2024.


29 posted on 11/22/2022 2:37:08 PM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie; All

Yup. NAACP is racist expression. The NAACP members haven’t figured out what the acronym stands for.


30 posted on 11/22/2022 2:37:09 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Since most commercials and ads in this country only show black people, the NAACP calling for less ads seems to be working against the people that the organization is supposed to be working for. Does anybody ever learn how to connect dots anymore?


31 posted on 11/22/2022 2:37:43 PM PST by Bernard (“the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God." JFK 1-20-61)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I'm perfectly fine with snowflakes canceling themselves.
It's a free country. Somewhat. For a little while more at least.

32 posted on 11/22/2022 2:40:22 PM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: PrayAndVoteConservesInLibsOut

You’re still awake? I can’t hold my eyes open on account of this exciting newZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ


33 posted on 11/22/2022 2:48:14 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Free country? Good morning, Rip. )
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To: lee martell

Close to 70% of US Jews vote Democrat. (per Gallup for 2020)


34 posted on 11/22/2022 2:50:48 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Two commie groups


35 posted on 11/22/2022 3:12:39 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: All

Wow ADL and NAACP are complaining about something ?!? Stop the presses


36 posted on 11/22/2022 3:15:17 PM PST by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

...know that you are contributing directly to an erratic billionaire’s decimation of Twitter and its rapid devolution into utter chaos.”

Translation: Musk removed the free lunch program at Twitter.


37 posted on 11/22/2022 3:21:40 PM PST by Flick Lives (Cui bono)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The left wing just can’t give it up.


38 posted on 11/22/2022 3:35:05 PM PST by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: PrayAndVoteConservesInLibsOut

The NAALCP (the L is for Liberal) and the ADL (ANTI-DEMOCRACY-LIBTARDS) are ruining the country.


39 posted on 11/22/2022 3:39:38 PM PST by Machavelli (True God)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

TRUMP has more followers than those 2 groups....


40 posted on 11/22/2022 4:22:03 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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