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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."

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


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

Yawn


2 posted on 11/22/2022 1:50:53 PM PST by PrayAndVoteConservesInLibsOut
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Their idea of free speech is somewhat different than mine. You can bet they would scream bloody murder, at the top of their lungs, if they were banned.


3 posted on 11/22/2022 1:52:38 PM PST by pfflier
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Trump’s done more for Blacks and Jews than any other president.


4 posted on 11/22/2022 1:54:03 PM PST by ryderann
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Two racist organizations mad cause trump got reinstated and has yet to tweet one single solitary thing


5 posted on 11/22/2022 1:54:35 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Whining racists whine, BFD.


6 posted on 11/22/2022 1:54:44 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well those are two reputable entities. Good luck with that.


7 posted on 11/22/2022 1:55:12 PM PST by MrRelevant
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Why are the National Colored People riled up? I must have missed something.

As for the ADL? Who knows. It's what liberals do.

8 posted on 11/22/2022 1:55:51 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The 2 oldest racist organizations in America, they should move to Syria where their kind thrives


9 posted on 11/22/2022 1:56:16 PM PST by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

ADL should know better, but I’ve always heard that most American Jews are very liberal. I don’t know if that’s true or not.


10 posted on 11/22/2022 1:56:49 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Lefties not happy they now need to share what was their toy. Very telling how much fear the new Twitter has evoked from the left.


11 posted on 11/22/2022 1:58:11 PM PST by Fzob
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The liberals are the fascists.


12 posted on 11/22/2022 1:59:00 PM PST by TakebackGOP
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Apparently “civil rights” groups are selective about who gets civil rights! !
Animal Farm = “no animal shall sleep in a bed, except pigs”


13 posted on 11/22/2022 1:59:07 PM PST by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Those people are really making the case for me to return to Twitter.


14 posted on 11/22/2022 1:59:23 PM PST by Howie66 (Let's Go Brandon!!)
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To: ryderann

Tired of it. Fkm, let them do for themselves


15 posted on 11/22/2022 2:00:13 PM PST by GenX4Real
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

NAACP and ADL should be canceled from everything.

Wonder how they would feel if they were the ones to get canceled and donations/contributions/members stopped coming in.

The Constitution and American freedoms mean nothing to organizations which think they’re the only ones owed anything.


16 posted on 11/22/2022 2:00:23 PM PST by adorno
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Who made the ADL arbiter of what is acceptable speech? When did they get legal authority to censor the internet?


17 posted on 11/22/2022 2:02:38 PM PST by Shadow44
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The old rabbit hole. See who is dumb enough to follow. My boycotts trump theirs.


18 posted on 11/22/2022 2:05:15 PM PST by Recompennation (Don’t blame me my vote didn’t count so mee)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
They sure are taking their TDS to the farthest edger of the universe.

Is there any question that DJ Trump should be the next President ?

No one in history . . . . has had the flak and hatred hurled at them any more than the best President America ever had and will again have.

19 posted on 11/22/2022 2:12:53 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true . . . I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

In a fight between Musk and NAACP/ADL, I’d back Musk to win every single time.
It won’t even e close. Musk will clobber em.
Chuckle.


20 posted on 11/22/2022 2:13:14 PM PST by SmokingJoe ( )
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