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'Shameless': Reporters Without Borders rebukes X for claiming to support it (www.npr.org)
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X recently claimed to support the press advocacy group Reporters Without Borders โ€” which in response called X "a haven for disinformation."

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[โ€“] Heresy_generator@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

And the support was just store credit, and not even that much of it in the grand scheme of things.

And it was completely a self-serving public relations play: they wanted to show that these respectable journalist organizations were willing to advertise on Xitter to try to convince some of their lost advertisers that it was okay to come back.