XX-XY Athletics is a clothing company which sells a clothing line that promotes keeping men out of women’s sports.
Facebook and Instagram, both owned by Meta, cripple their marketing for their products. TikTok banned them outright.
But if you want to sell illegal drugs, such as cocaine and opioids, have at it. It features ads–which are vetted by Meta, Facebook’s
.@instagram will run ads for illegal drugs including cocaine but severely limits the reach of an ad (essentially shadow-banning) for @xx_xyathletics, a brand standing up to protect women’s sports.
How is this the world?
Pro drugs – ✅
Pro woman – ❌https://t.co/b95sKwbe2w— Jennifer Sey (@JenniferSey) July 31, 2024
The Wall Street Journal has an expose–the second one so far–on Meta’s looking the other way and enabling the advertising of illegal drugs. It has decided that, since the money is good and because it is just fine with selling illegal drugs, it will take the money and run.
Enabling the poisoning of America is fine; arguing that men shouldn’t be allowed men to cosplay women in women’s sports is unacceptable hatred.
Welcome to the weird moral world of the left. It’s a world where photos of Trump surviving an assassination attempt are labeled fake while advertising cocaine is just fine.
Meta Platforms META -0.54%decrease; red down pointing triangle is running ads on Facebook and Instagram that steer users to online marketplaces for illegal drugs, months after The Wall Street Journal first reported that the social-media giant was facing a federal investigation over the practice.
The company has continued to collect revenue from ads that violate its policies, which ban promoting the sale of illicit or recreational drugs. A review by the Journal in July found dozens of ads marketing illegal substances such as cocaine and prescription opioids, including as recently as Friday. A separate analysis over recent months by an industry watchdog group found hundreds of such ads.
The ads show photos of prescription-drug bottles, piles of pills or bricks of cocaine. “Place your orders,” said one of the ads the Journal found in July. It also included a photo of a razorblade and a yellow powder arranged to spell out “DMT,” a psychedelic drug.
It’s not like Meta doesn’t know. The Wall Street Journal has written about this very thing before. They don’t care, because selling illegal drugs doesn’t hurt Democrats or leftist causes. That is the ultimate sin, not harming people.
So what do Meta, Facebook, and TikTok consider so hateful that suppressing the message and the company promoting it is necessary?
We believe women deserve the opportunities that sports and single sex spaces provide.
For women to be recognized as champions and simply to be afforded the chance to compete on an even playing field, women’s sports need to remain female. STAND WITH US #TheTruthFits pic.twitter.com/2AbBcAZpYV
— XX-XY Athletics (@xx_xyathletics) March 27, 2024
Jennifer Sey, the Founder of XX_XY Athletics, is just trying to give women a choice to express themselves in the most simple and inoffensive way: wearing clothes that say XX_XY.
Really, that is it. Nothing hateful about this:
Sey explains how Meta is suppressing them–by not allowing them to target their ads, forcing them to spend 3-4x more to get the same result.
I know this is a little inside baseball, but essentially Meta is handicapping our ability to reach likely buyers. In a way that they don’t do to brands that deliver the “right” message. And by “right”, I mean Left.
It is also worth noting that targeting the followers of influencers who align with a brand’s message increases return on ad spend by 3 to 4x. So in disallowing us to do this, we are forced to spend more to drive the same amount of business. Again, really bad for business.
Any brand that isn’t furthering a left-wing narrative, will be put at a significant disadvantage by Meta, blocked from finding and engaging their potential fanbase. Or, at the very least, making it MUCH more difficult.
Go woke or get the heck out of here, Meta seems to be saying.
This is viewpoint discrimination in way that is hidden from public view. It’s like shadow banning for businesses. And it is all part of censoring wrong think and manufacturing consensus.
You can target left-wingers all you want. But followers of Riley Gaines–no way to target them.
I have no proof, but it seems likely that the people selling illegal drugs can target those ads. How many of you see them on Facebook? You are not their target market.
We can argue all day long about whether antitrust action should be taken against the Big Tech social media companies, but not about whether they are putting their thumb on the scale for ideological reasons. You don’t target conservative advertisers by accident. They are an arm of the left-wing mafia.
Get off Facebook and Instagram. I decided to do so, despite it costing me money (I sell my photographs, and people find me on Instagram). Facebook makes big bucks selling you to advertisers.
