It was one other regular evening on Twitter, with Elon Musk banning a number of outstanding tech journalists who’ve coated him critically and participating in a weird Twitter Areas occasion.
You realize, customary Thursday stuff.
The accounts belonging to CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, The New York Occasions’ Ryan Mac, The Washington Submit’s Drew Harwell and different journalists who’ve coated Musk aggressively in current weeks had been all abruptly completely suspended. The account of progressive unbiased journalist Aaron Rupar was additionally banned.
Neither Musk nor Twitter responded to CNN’s request for remark and the platform didn’t formally (say) why the journalists had been exiled from the platform.
However, in a sequence of sporadic tweets, Musk claimed that the journalists had violated his new “doxxing” coverage by sharing his “precise real-time” location, amounting to what he described as “assassination coordinates.” Not one of the banned journalists appeared to have shared Musk’s exact real-time location.
Musk claimed that the journalists doxxed him, however that isn’t what occurred. They both reported on or shared hyperlinks to the now-banned ElonJets Twitter account, which shared flight info for personal jets for Musk (in addition to different billionaires and authorities entities on different accounts). The data the accounts shared is a matter of public document, and Musk had beforehand stated that permitting the account to function proved his dedication to free speech.
Musk appeared briefly on a Twitter Area hosted by a BuzzFeed reporter to defend himself. “You’re only a Twitter citizen. So no particular remedy,” Musk stated. “You dox, you get suspended, finish of story.”
He left the Area whereas the reporter tried to ask him a query. Shortly after, the Area went black and was compelled to finish.
Why it issues: It’s Musk’s social community. He has the proper to do what he desires with it. However the lack of constant moderation – which has seen accounts owned by white nationalists introduced again after breaking of guidelines – and his abandoning of the free speech rules he stated motivated his buy are regarding to any model nonetheless utilizing the platform.
SKYY Vodka desires to pay to your wedding ceremony
SKYY Vodka is taking a spirited social media method to supporting LGBTQ marriage, linking its self-proclaimed progressive heritage to California roots and providing to foot the invoice for 100 weddings primarily based on an Instagram sweepstakes contest for people utilizing their #SKYYSAYSIDO hashtag. This isn’t their first foray down the rainbow aisle — they championed a “Toast to Marriage” marketing campaign in 2015 in the course of the leadup to the Supreme Court docket’s Freedom to Marry choice, which featured an look from then-VP Joe Biden.
From Advertising Dive:
Completed in partnership with NYC Satisfaction, the “Skyy Says I Do” marketing campaign asks {couples} to submit an image of themselves toasting marriage equality with the @SKYYVodka tag and #SKYYSaysIDo hashtag on Instagram for an opportunity to qualify.
The Campari Group spirits marketer can also be opening a pop-up chapel in New York Metropolis at The Mezzanine occasion house on Dec. 19 for these trying to be wed. Registration for the expertise, which incorporates an officiant, photographer and cocktails, is on the market on-line.
Why it issues: That is no pie-in-the-sky(y) notion — manufacturers actually do need to join with individuals’s actual lives nowadays, particularly for high-stakes, high-visibility moments like weddings. SKYY isn’t the primary chapel-thirsty org on the market, both. You may e book $777 Taco Bell weddings (4 hour discover required, sorry to spontaneous betrotheds) at their Vegas Cantina chapel, full with sauce-packet bouquet and bow-tie, or within the metaverse at their Decentraland chapel full with NFT wearables.
SKYY’s present effort aligns with the bipartisan Respect for Marriage Act that Biden signed this weekr. PR execs, take notice: public LGBTQ+ help will probably be particularly resonant with audiences in 2023.
TikTok and teenage women: the potential for hurt
A brand new examine from the Heart for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) finds that TikTok wreaks havoc on the psychological well being of juvenile women.
From Quick Firm:
Right now, two-thirds of American youngsters are on TikTok, for a median of 80 minutes per day. CCDH says customary accounts had been uncovered to extra pro-eating dysfunction or self-harm content material each 3.5 minutes—that’s, 23 each day exposures for the common TikToker. Susceptible accounts had been proven 12 instances extra dangerous content material, nonetheless. Whereas customary accounts noticed a complete of six pro-suicide movies (or 1.5 apiece, unfold over half-hour), the weak accounts had been bombarded with one other each 97 seconds.
Why it issues: That social media might be extraordinarily exhausting on younger individuals (particularly women) has been well-documented — decreasing life satisfaction, affecting physique picture, rising the threat for dying by suicide and extra. However not everybody agrees with the CCDH’s methodology on this examine; for instance, Quick Firm reviews that they “lumped instructional and restoration materials in with damaging content material.”
And TikTok has taken some steps this yr to create a safer house, like banning content material that presents constructive views on consuming problems and self-harm, or directing problematic hashtags like #anorexia and #thinspo to the Nationwide Consuming Dysfunction Affiliation helpline.
Within the meantime, right here’s hoping TikTok and different platforms take this knowledge as one other sign that the general public is watching, and expects them to take motion. And as PR professionals, you’ll be able to maintain your facet of the road clear by avoiding the creation, posting or sharing of content material that creates a darker expertise for younger individuals.
When the pointedness is the purpose
The rise of meta (not that Meta, though they’re within the information tangling with the FTC) in promoting will get some digital ink in The Atlantic’s postmodern tackle promoting messaging. The take: advertisements are upfront about being advertisements nowadays as a result of it may be humorous to interrupt the fourth wall and since shoppers have grow to be too subtle for the rest.
From The Atlantic:
For those who’ve watched sufficient TV over the previous few years (and I definitely have), you could have observed the emergence of a wierd new sort of business: the meta-commercial. As in, an commercial about commercials, a business that refers explicitly to the truth that it’s a business. Characters in these advertisements say issues like “Are we in a Wayfair business?” and “This have to be a State Farm business” and “You riffin’, or is that this a part of the business?” (It’s.)…
Why this issues. Persuasion and subtlety have their deserves—that’s why they’ve endured in communications and PR. However a part of the enjoyable is switching issues up. For those who haven’t tinkered with a meta or “all vibes” method in your messaging earlier than (or not too long ago) problem your self to check out some framing that leans postmodern when it comes to self-awareness and being in on the breaking down of the fourth wall.
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Look what occurs if Musk broadcasts not simply that Twittter is strongly towards doxing no matter that’s however towards most cancers (or coronary heart illness, stroke or take your selection) so TWITTER IS DONATING A BILLION DOLLARS to kind the “Twitter Most cancers Treatment Institute” at Memorial Sloan Kettering Most cancers Heart or Weill Cornell Medical Heart or NYU Langone.
GOALS: (1) finish breast most cancers, (2) finish prostate most cancers, and (3) discover a most cancers vaccine.
COST: Twitter has been incomes properly over a billion a month and will save tens of billions worldwide from hostile authorities laws and fits. Would 80% of presidency individuals strongly oppose regs that might weaken a Twitter Anti-Most cancers Institute?
MEDIA COVERAGE: Would the press briefing—six world-famous docs and two or three Twitter execs up there within the dais—get worldwide media protection for HOW docs will attempt saving over 1,000,000 lives a yr?
Our nice PR companies could make this occur!
Surprisingly we will see on-line that Sloan Kettering already HAS a most cancers vaccine and is working to excellent higher ones. Sloan Kettering radiation towards early stage lung most cancers has grow to be 95% profitable! Breast most cancers deaths at Memorial Sloan Kettering are plunging and with far fewer mastectomies!
PR knowledge tells us what could be a lot much less profitable for Musk and different besieged company leaders: getting squirted by skunks or by journalists named on this PR Each day report.