The ad approvals come as the European Commission investigates both companies for violating European tech laws. Elon Musk has also highly promoted far-right politics at X, and X CEO Linda Yaccarino reportedly warned major firms like Interpublic Group to invest in ads on the platform, the Wall Street Journal reports. Meta, meanwhile, recently reversed its third-party moderation policy.

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    1 day ago

    The subhead is

    The ads promoted extremist hate speech

    It wasn’t clear to me from the title if “referencing Nazi war crimes” was a good or bad thing (as in, “don’t let history repeat itself” seems a good message, but that’s apparently not the perspective the ad was pushing…).