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[–] cmrn@lemmy.world 38 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The majority of the ads I get on Twitter now are deepfaked Elon shilling coins — I don’t know how any advertiser (or user) could have any faith in that platform anymore.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

I don’t know how any advertiser (or user) could have any faith in that platform anymore.

For the advertisers they know it's full of rubes who will easily fall for their scams. Hence the cryptocurrencies.