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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
Civil rights organizations

Thats a joke.

41 posted on 11/22/2022 4:37:59 PM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
NAACP and ADL call for Twitter ad boycott ...

I appreciate it when people stand up and identify themselves as un-American and anti-American.

Even when I already knew it.

42 posted on 11/22/2022 4:53:38 PM PST by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Two protection rackets obeying the Democratic Party.


43 posted on 11/22/2022 5:59:24 PM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Sarah Barracuda
"Two racist organizations mad cause trump got reinstated"


44 posted on 11/22/2022 6:39:26 PM PST by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: clearcarbon

RACISSSSSSSSSSS
Just sayin’


45 posted on 11/22/2022 6:45:21 PM PST by gathersnomoss (LIVE FREE OR DIE)
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To: PrayAndVoteConservesInLibsOut

here is that “Well... BYE!” meme when you need it?


46 posted on 11/22/2022 6:56:03 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What a CROCK OF DUNG!


47 posted on 11/22/2022 6:59:23 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Not Safe? But according to the ACLU it was safe for the Nazis to parade through Skokie, Illinois, a town of mostly Jewish inhabitants, including many Holocaust survivors.


48 posted on 11/22/2022 7:55:10 PM PST by csn vinnie
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49 posted on 11/22/2022 8:16:31 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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