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Thursday on X (Twitter), all users saw the same pinned topic under the "What's happening?" sidebar. As part of a "timeline takeover" -- which gives

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Thursday on X (Twitter), all users saw the same pinned topic under the “What’s happening?” sidebar. As part of a “timeline takeover” — which gives advertisers “priority access to logged-in users’ first impression of the day” — conservative media nonprofit PragerU is promoting the hashtag “#DETRANS” to advertise its new film about “the stories of detransitioners.”

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Musk must really need the money

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I doubt he’s broke. Far more likely that he’s just a bigot.

I actually think its more than that… He’s seen how bigotry managed to empower Trump’s audience. Now it feels like a power grab

He is losing much money, most of his money is his capital (business), not cash.

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