I don’t use X/Twitter, but came across this ad on Facebook (and reported it immediately). If their systems can’t prevent obvious fakes like this designed to scam people, it doesn’t give you much confidence in everything else…
"The ads, which are related to cryptocurrency, appear to be targeting people of identity with being anti-establishment."
I will say i've seen this ad constantly on every one of my twitter accounts - my own one (which is pretty liberal leaning, though I stopped posting when Musk bought the platform), an alt account I use just to follow close friends (again, very left leaning politically), and several corporate accounts.
As you note all the ads are promoting one tweet, which links to a second tweet. I'm sure this is because the second tweet with the link is clearly a scam and X would not allow this to be promoted (or wouldn't, in the old days, these days I think they just approve almost anything). But they must be spending a fortune on these ads. The only other ads I've seen are for other financial platforms, and in the last few days ITV have been advertising football and betting platforms have popped up with world cup promotions, so yet another money grab.
I don’t use X/Twitter, but came across this ad on Facebook (and reported it immediately). If their systems can’t prevent obvious fakes like this designed to scam people, it doesn’t give you much confidence in everything else…
"The ads, which are related to cryptocurrency, appear to be targeting people of identity with being anti-establishment."
I will say i've seen this ad constantly on every one of my twitter accounts - my own one (which is pretty liberal leaning, though I stopped posting when Musk bought the platform), an alt account I use just to follow close friends (again, very left leaning politically), and several corporate accounts.
As you note all the ads are promoting one tweet, which links to a second tweet. I'm sure this is because the second tweet with the link is clearly a scam and X would not allow this to be promoted (or wouldn't, in the old days, these days I think they just approve almost anything). But they must be spending a fortune on these ads. The only other ads I've seen are for other financial platforms, and in the last few days ITV have been advertising football and betting platforms have popped up with world cup promotions, so yet another money grab.