CBC still endorses X as a platform to post their stories, though. Maybe one day soon we won’t even see his bastardized X11 logo on there.
How about we just petition CBC to get off that stupid platform … I sent a personal note telling them to get off this dumb private corporately controlled social media platform.
Fill out the details to send a complaint directly to the CBC Ombudsman
https://cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/ombudsman/contact
We can complain about it all till we turn blue in the face … but at the very least if a whole bunch of us and others we encourage to do the same make enough noise about this … CBC can get the incentive to get off that stupid platform.
It took me a while but I let the ombud know that, imho, CBC stories shouldn’t link to ANY commercial social media networks, and that, while this may have been acceptable in the early days of social media in order to promote the use of a new medium (if not the companies behind it) these particular companies have shown themselves to be poor stewards of their users data as well as having little concern for the accuracy of the ‘news’ that appears on their platform. Further, a public broadcaster should not endorse particular commercial brands when there are public, non-commercial alternatives .
So thanks for the link and the prompting!
For once I approve a Bell decision.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Ads for Montreal’s Major League Soccer team, CF Montréal, and for the Jewish advocacy group B’nai Brith Canada appeared in the feed of Richard Spencer, a well-known white nationalist who helped lead a march in 2017 where followers chanted “Jews will not replace us.”
“Despite putting measures in place to protect Noovo from such a situation, it seems that X considered the offensive content from a third party to be moderate, which allowed our ad to appear alongside it,” Patrick Tremblay, a Bell Media spokesperson, said in a statement to CBC News last week.
An ad for public opinion firm Angus Reid seeking survey participants appeared on an account called Anti White Watch, which researchers have noted spreads antisemitic and racist conspiracy theories.
The Appraisal Institute of Canada, an association of real estate valuation experts, paused its advertising campaign on X after it was informed its ads were appearing in the feeds of Carl Benjamin, Richard Spencer and an account linked to the white nationalist and antisemitic Groyper movement.
National Post-sponsored content bought by non-profits Mood Disorders Society of Canada and the Pedigree Foundation appeared in the feeds of Anti White Watch and Andrew Tate, a self-proclaimed misogynist influencer who is facing human trafficking charges in Romania.
Musk, who is also CEO of electric vehicle maker Tesla and rocket company SpaceX, restored dozens of accounts that had been booted off the platform for violating community standards, including that of former U.S. president Donald Trump.
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About fucking time, assholes. Maybe the CBC should stop posting there.
