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Dope1: Sigh. Lawyers. :)
You write a script (code) to load an account, auto tweet something, auto refresh, etc. etc. etc.
Well, albaby1 gave you a link to the legal filing, so quote that allegation, please. Oh wait, it's not there. Here's what X claims:
8. Media Matters executed this plot in multiple steps, as X's internal investigations have revealed. First, Media Matters accessed accounts that had been active for at least 30 days, bypassing X's ad filter for new users. Media Matters then exclusively followed a small subset of users consisting entirely of accounts in one of two categories: those known to produce extreme, fringe content, and accounts owned by X's big-name advertisers. The end result was a feed precision-designed by Media Matters for a single purpose: to produce side-by-side ad/content placements that it could screenshot in an effort to alienate advertisers.
9. But this activity still was not enough to create the pairings of advertisements and content that Media Matters aimed to produce.
10. Media Matters therefore resorted to endlessly scrolling and refreshing its unrepresentative, hand-selected feed, generating between 13 and 15 times more advertisements per hour than viewed by the average X user repeating this inauthentic activity until it finally received pages containing the result it wanted: controversial content next to X's largest advertisers' paid posts.
Basically, X claims that Media Matters figured out how to get various companies' product ads to appear "adjacent to racist, incendiary content" more often than it's supposed to rather than "adjacent to content scoring above the Global Alliance for Responsible Media’s brand safety floor."
The companies have said, well, sorry, we don't EVER want that to happen, so bye.
dividends20: Fake data in the report.
X doesn't allege there's any fake data in the report.
