Taylor Lorenz
Twitter is paying high profile far right content creators, including Andrew Tate, thousands of dollars for posting to the app https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/13/twitter-creators-payments-right-wing/
Far-right Twitter influencers first on Elon Musk’s monetization scheme

The first beneficiaries appear to be high-profile influencers like Andrew Tate, DC Draino, Ian Miles Cheong, Benny Johnson and Ashley St. Clair.

The Washington Post
Jul 14, 2023 at 1:45amMastodon for iOS
Show threadChris Jul 14, 2023

@taylorlorenz well if it walks like a fascist, and talks like a fascist, and tweets like a fascist...

yeah, no... he's a fascist.

Show threadaburtchJul 14, 2023
@taylorlorenz Wow, now that is some serious desperation.
Show threadLAURENJul 14, 2023
@taylorlorenz That's how people like Nick Adams become right wing star trolls. They're all paid.
Show threadCarl AndersonJul 14, 2023

@taylorlorenz

where is all this additional revenure coming from? He HAS to be selling some more Tesla shares.

Show threadAndresJul 14, 2023
@taylorlorenz wow.
such freedom.
much speech.
Show threadCatbusJul 14, 2023
@taylorlorenz only a true business genius could think of paying dudes who have literally nowhere else to go to post their dribble on his failing app
Show threadjenifer daniels ♎ :verified:Jul 14, 2023
@taylorlorenz 🌽🌽🌽🌽
Show threadSlade WatkinsJul 14, 2023
@taylorlorenz yeah, I think I'm happier here and on Threads. He can have fun with his echo chamber though.
Show threadFull Report BelowJul 14, 2023
@sladewatkins @taylorlorenz Yes. Leave the platform. They don’t want an echo chamber, they want to „0wn teh leff“. If we are not there, all they can do is scream at each other
Show threadSlade WatkinsJul 14, 2023
@below @taylorlorenz hell yeah! let's build a new nicer place to be!
Show threadSporticusJul 14, 2023
@taylorlorenz nothing screams “Love Me!” better than paying your friends to like you.
Show threadTHIS ACCOUNT HAS MOVEDJul 14, 2023
@taylorlorenz twitter is over
Show threadlorenetJul 14, 2023
@taylorlorenz "Team Evil rides a boat made of money straight to Hell." --@bluegal
Show threadvibhor 🍑 🏳️‍🌈Jul 14, 2023
@taylorlorenz are we even surprised ?
Show threadMichael CritzJul 14, 2023
@taylorlorenz Great article. It’s interesting to think of the advertiser’s side of the story. “Please come to Twitter. Your brand next to these prominent haters. What could go wrong!?”
Show threadCupidsMolotov🦂:labrys-progpride: :labrys-chaostar: Jul 14, 2023
@taylorlorenz as if anyone needed yet another reason to delete that app
Show threadAgoraJul 14, 2023
@taylorlorenz 😂😂😂 what a fucking cesspool.
Show threadFigaroJul 14, 2023

@taylorlorenz Honestly who the hell actually sees what Tate is doing and thinks, ah yes, this is a normal and sane person?

Looking forward to his conviction.

Show threadJ$Jul 14, 2023
@figaro I know nothing about this Tate fellow but I fo like his gallery.
Show threadCatchingmybreathJul 14, 2023
@taylorlorenz that tells you everything you need to know and why to avoid. Women are being attacked .. American Taliban is pushing their agenda out in the open
Show threadyasmin v ♿Jul 14, 2023
@taylorlorenz This makes more sense now. Ugh
Show threadBillSaysThisJul 14, 2023
@taylorlorenz The only thing that surprises me about this is that Elno hates paying anyone.
Show threadMxhradJul 14, 2023

@taylorlorenz

If you're paying white supremacists to do white supremacist things, you're a white supremacist.

... and at this point, anyone who's advertising on #twitter is directly funding these Nazis.

Show threadJDJul 14, 2023
@taylorlorenz how much are Greenwald, Mate’ and Tracey getting?
Show threadJDJul 14, 2023
@taylorlorenz and had Taibbi kissed Musk’s ring enough that he’s allowed back?
Show threadTriciaJul 14, 2023
@taylorlorenz
So disgusting
Show threadThat Guy AngeloJul 14, 2023
@taylorlorenz Brilliant move to woo back advertisers by letting them know that not only will their ads be posted next to CuckKiller1488’s tweets but that they will be paying them for it.
Show threadOrca 🌻 | 🎀 | 🪁 | 🏴🏳️‍⚧️Jul 14, 2023
@taylorlorenz Yet they have not paid their ex-employees severance fee. Wow.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/twitter-owes-ex-employees-500-mln-severance-lawsuit-claims-2023-07-12/
Twitter owes ex-employees $500 mln in severance, lawsuit claims

Twitter Inc on Wednesday was hit with a lawsuit accusing it of refusing to pay at least $500 million in promised severance to thousands of employees who were <a href="/technology/twitter-start-layoffs-friday-morning-internal-email-2022-11-04/">laid off</a> after Elon Musk acquired the company.

Reuters
Show threadGareth KitchenJul 14, 2023
@taylorlorenz

Great article but let's not overlook that it is
actually Google that has become a primary funder of malignant, violent, racist, anti-Semitic, and Covid disinformation content on the internet. As they are the dominant advertiser globally.

Don't take my word for it listen to Imran Ahmed from the Center for Countering Digital Hate in his evidence to UK Govt. on the subject.

Full transcript of his evidence here. https://committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/2693/html/​

https://stroud.social/media/62f7f9bc-451f-4531-a387-34dfee43a373/Draft_Online_Safety_Bill_Joint_Committee__09_09_21_10_09_40.mp4
Show threadCyber YukiJul 14, 2023
@taylorlorenz please CW this, thank you.
Show threadJames BrittJul 14, 2023
@taylorlorenz because Twitter is just rolling in money. 😜
Show threadGeorge Liquor, AmericanJul 14, 2023
@taylorlorenz Tate is a literal human trafficker and rapist. Elon should feel right at home propping him up
Show threadTee Koobaan, Kevin Sorbo's failed acting coachJul 14, 2023

@taylorlorenz

Twitter knows it is far right stupid cult that pays for BS sold to them by the BS masters such as Lil Andy's taint!
Elon needs money to pay his Saudi masters, or he's going to end up like many others......

Show threadPop Justy Jul 14, 2023
@taylorlorenz
Show threadJeremyCaradonnaJul 14, 2023
@taylorlorenz Gross.
Show threadPointlessSpikeJul 14, 2023
@taylorlorenz Taking money from their former employees and giving it to Nazis. Sounds like an Elon move.
Show threadLuna chanJul 14, 2023
@taylorlorenz
Elon has made Twitter a far a worse place.
Show threadJason Walter 🇵🇸Jul 14, 2023
@taylorlorenz @mitch Fucking hell. It just keeps getting worse.
Show threadProScience 🇪🇺Jul 14, 2023

@taylorlorenz

Melon Husk is a threat to the security of the 🇺🇸 and beyond.

When will journalists ask Biden, Sullivan and others to pull all government projects from his companies?

Show threadHelgi CrookehorneJul 14, 2023
@taylorlorenz and why is that dude not in Romanian jail at all?! Now imagine how Russians with billions of dirty money go buy their way out of genocide, mass rapes of children and such stuff
Show threadJohn CuttingJul 14, 2023
@taylorlorenz hard to argue with that. Glad I'm here now
Show threadRed Panda CodingJul 14, 2023

@taylorlorenz @patrick_h_lauke Lol, the whining of the far right activists that a few get a super high payout while most are left with nothing. And another whine that those who criticise Master Musk are also left out.

What are they complaining about, isn’t that exactly the future that they want? Isn’t that exactly what they advocate for?

More funny is that the eligibility for this is going through “human review” with no application process. So… like the old Twitter verification?

Show threadProf. Julia LeydaJul 14, 2023
@taylorlorenz Thank you for this! Sharing on my corporate socials now. Still astonished at how many academics have continued to use them this long.
Show threadArne HanssenJul 14, 2023
@taylorlorenz
I wonder; how can Elon Musk even think that man can create living conditions on Mars when man seems unable to preserve living conditions on Earth (which is ideal for humans - unlike Mars)?
Show threadErin ConroyJul 14, 2023

@taylorlorenz

Very much relatedly, disabled people who have advocated for disability rights & COVID information are being targeted and harassed off of Twitter.

Show threadOzzy🕯Jul 14, 2023
@chargrille @taylorlorenz
I wonder why some who should know better remain on that site
Show threadSeanJul 14, 2023
@taylorlorenz I wish he’d paid Twitter staff their severance packages.
Show threadsalguod, man 🍂🍁 lazysupperJul 14, 2023

@taylorlorenz
But Ewon's not sharing equally with all of them? 😥😢😭 What a bad capitalist!

The lack of self-awareness and magnitude of hypocrisy is staggering.

Show threadakzaismeJul 14, 2023
@taylorlorenz I thought Elmo wanted to file bankruptcy after driving Twitter to the ground.
Show threadChris AdamsonJul 14, 2023
@taylorlorenz How was dril not the first person to get a payment? That’s what tells me this is political, not about encouraging content creation to support the platform.
Show threadRettungstasse ☕️Jul 14, 2023
@taylorlorenz
RIP Twitter 🪦
Show thread6x6Jul 14, 2023
@taylorlorenz Kinda surprised the Romanians haven’t taken Tate’s internet away yet.
Show threadmsgbiJul 14, 2023
@taylorlorenz @charles_ex Weimar
Show threadPaul MullettJul 14, 2023
@taylorlorenz “free speech” is costing him quite a lot of money, it would seem. Disgusting
Show threadMettEagleJul 14, 2023
@taylorlorenz women flee for free🧘🧘🧘
Show threadFluxJul 14, 2023
@taylorlorenz
I swear he's finding new ways to lose more money and burn $44bn
Show threadDanJul 14, 2023

@taylorlorenz so his “winning” plan is to pay the most abusive, most hateful, most ragebait of his fanboys to post as often as they can on Twitter - and then reward them for being even worse (because it drives more views).

Yup. This will surely help advertisers and brands feel safe on the site.

Show threadLyndeeJul 14, 2023

@taylorlorenz

What a maroon.

Parlour, TS, and Twit are the place to go for racists, misogynists, and misinformation.