- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
Thursday on X (Twitter), all users saw the same pinned topic under the “What’s happening?” sidebar. As part of a “timeline takeover” — which gives advertisers “priority access to logged-in users’ first impression of the day” — conservative media nonprofit PragerU is promoting the hashtag “#DETRANS” to advertise its new film about “the stories of detransitioners.”
We’ve got it blocked at our router. The DNS server just responds with no such address.
Hijacking twitter DNS queries and redirecting to a page that only serves images of cats.
https://genrandom.com/cats/
You are the hero we need! ❤️