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X Social Media is suing X, a social media company::Elon Musk’s X is being sued by a Florida company called X Social Media for alleged unfair competition and trademark violations that it says have resulted in lost revenue.

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[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The article says it is "an ad agency".

Makes me curious: why are they calling themselves "Social Media"?

[–] JakenVeina@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd wager their focus is advertising ON social media.

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Hmmmm... seems they don't want to work on X-twitter anymore :-)

[–] AbyssalChord@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

Probably because Social Media is their ad platform.

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

X used to be an ad agency before Musk scared off all their advertisers and turned it into a subscription bullshit delivery service

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

Doesn't all corpo social media make their money through ads? I think I remember Zuccerbot responding "we sell advertising" when the American politicians asked him what Facebook actually does.

[–] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Because they advertise on social media.