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Yeah, reading through the article, it's a weird set of mental gymnastics they're going through to argue the case. They're saying that Media Matters basically created an account specifically for the purposes of seeing hate speech content and refreshing it so much that these major advertisers eventually showed up next to the hate speech content. They're not even acting like it's an issue that the hate speech is on there in the first place, it's just sort of like a given, "Of course we host hate speech, so what?" The problem that they're arguing is that the average user likely wouldn't see this, which doesn't seem like that's what Media Matters was saying, MM just presented it as, "This has the possibility of happening on twitter/X." As long as they're the ones allowing hate speech on their site, they're creating opportunities for these ad placement situations to happen in the first place, MM just pointed it out.