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Oil companies are hiring TikTok influencers to court young people (www.washingtonpost.com)

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[-] tonytins@pawb.social 59 points 10 months ago

What the flying fuck?

[-] fry@fry.gs 23 points 10 months ago

Yea, it’s definitely weird on more than one level 😂

[-] FaceDeer@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago

Pretty sure that thumbnail isn't from the article. I searched the article really hard for it.

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago

The real story is being overlooked: Washington Post is Hiring OnlyFans Influencers to Court Readers

[-] fry@fry.gs 3 points 10 months ago

It’s shows up for me on mobile. It says it’s a screenshot from TikTok. Maybe it doesn’t show up on desktop for some reason?

[-] Helldiver_M@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

I'm on Desktop from Kbin and it shows up: https://kbin.social/m/technology@lemmy.world/t/354342/Oil-companies-are-hiring-TikTok-influencers-to-court-young-people

[-] Chozo@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

Kbin is having thumbnail caching issues lately, and will assign thumbnails from other posts that were submitted around the same time. I feel like it's been happening for a week or two now.

@ernest, plz

[-] VanillaGorilla@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

This is disgusting. It tricked me to click a Washington post article!

[-] ElBarto@lzrprt.sbs 2 points 10 months ago

Man, you got catfished by the Washington post haha.

[-] reflex@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This is disgusting.

So disgusting!

[-] doc@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

@ernest, here's a nsfw screenshot in case it doesn't appear for you. https://i.imgur.com/il0uZC4.png

[-] reflex@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

here's a nsfw screenshot in case it doesn't appear for you.

Confirmed. Under the Linus Tech Tits post.

[-] pgm_01@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

That's not good at all.

[-] fry@fry.gs 1 points 10 months ago

Yea, there's clearly something misconfigured over on kbin at the moment. Might be worth pinging one of the people that runs it.

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