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by emilamlom
570 days ago
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For those that are out of the loop on all this, here's a Reuters article about the formation of the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) from 2019: https://www.reuters.com/article/technology/advertisers-agenc... And here's the WFA's post about it shutting GARM down: https://wfanet.org/knowledge/item/2024/08/09/wfa-discontinue... From what I can tell, the World Federation of Advertisers formed GARM to push advertising platforms to take a more proactive role in dealing with misinformation. Naturally, with the way X has been going since the change in ownership, they have been hit hard by this kind of pushback and Elon Musk vowed to sue WFA for this. Seems like because he got involved, the rest of the republican leadership decided to as well as there's this Texas thing and a motion by the House republicans to do a similar investigation. I really don't know what they expect to accomplish with this though. Do they think the government should force advertisers to buy ads on X or something? |
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Yes. Free market, you see.