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Elon Musk's X Accused Of Unlabeled Ad Promotion For MrBeast's '$1 Car vs $100,000,000 Car' Video

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/elon-musks-x-accused-of...



Unlabeled ads have been popping up more and more frequently on my timeline.

You can tell that they're ads because they're not from accounts you follow and nor retweeted, and you can verify that they are are ads because the three-dot menu includes the "Why this ad?" option.


To save a couple clicks, here’s the main context linked in the article:

“Per X, the MrBeast video is technically not an undisclosed ad. There is a pre-roll ad for Shopify in the video, which is labeled as such. X boosts posts containing pre-roll ads, but because the post itself is not the ad, it doesn't have the label.”




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