Meta and X Approve AI Ads Referencing Nazi War Crimes Ahead of German Elections, Research Finds
Meta and X Approve AI Ads Referencing Nazi War Crimes Ahead of German Elections, Research Finds
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.
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...).