{"id":176916,"date":"2020-02-18T20:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T01:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/02\/18\/end-stage-capitalism\/"},"modified":"2020-02-18T20:20:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T01:20:00","slug":"end-stage-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/02\/18\/end-stage-capitalism\/","title":{"rendered":"End Stage Capitalism"},"content":{"rendered":"
Twitter just took advertisements from a fake organ selling firm<\/a>:<\/div>\n

Aside from pockets of overt racism<\/a>, one of the more weirdly unpleasant corners of Twitter comes from its \u201cpromoted\u201d content. What ostensibly started as a tool for big-name brands to drive the \u201creach\u201d and \u201cimpact\u201d<\/a> of whatever message they might be promoting, it\u2019s since devolved into another kind of marketing tool that\u2019s just kind of…. weird. Not weird in the tracking-you-everywhere-you-go<\/a> kind of way, but weird, in the just plain<\/a> weird way.<\/p>\n

Not unlike the bonkers hallucinations reported by patients on death\u2019s door<\/a>, the spammy, click-baity, and sometimes downright disturbing promoted tweets cropping up onto people\u2019s feeds are symptomatic of Twitter\u2019s own ad platform rotting from the inside out. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a recent example: This week, freelance journalist Tyler Coates apparently had a grisly promo for an organ-buying service crop up onto his feed. <\/p>\n

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promoted tweet pic.twitter.com\/NfxrpVBCpY<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n

\u2014 Tyler Coates (@tylercoates) February 12, 2020<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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There is something profoundly broken in our economic system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Twitter just took advertisements from a fake organ selling firm: Aside from pockets of overt racism, one of the more weirdly unpleasant corners of Twitter comes from its \u201cpromoted\u201d content. What ostensibly started as a tool for big-name brands to drive the \u201creach\u201d and \u201cimpact\u201d of whatever message they might be promoting, it\u2019s since devolved …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[608,365,588,367],"class_list":["post-176916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-advertising","tag-business","tag-fail","tag-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}