cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/7435108
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.”
Why was it forced to shut down?
If you click the link, they still have a static page up describing everything more eloquently than i could manage at 5 in the morning.