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if you're still using twitter at this point, malicious crypto ads are the least of your worries.
what are your worries?
Being part of, and tacitly validating, an ecosystem that welcomes Nazis, sex traffickers and the sort of people who abuse the bereaved parents of murdered children.
The World Wide Web has all of that...better not tacitly support it.
So does world. But we are talking about particular website.
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I took it to mean Alex Jones, since I have no idea who those people are and the links you give make no mention of a Twitter/X connection, much less a high-level connection like Jones has.

While with Alex Jones we have lawsuits which fit the description of "who abuse the bereaved parents of murdered children", like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Jones#Pozner_and_De_La_Ro...

> On April 16, 2018 Leonard Pozner and Veronique De La Rosa, parents of victim Noah Pozner, filed a defamation suit against Jones, Infowars and Free Speech Systems in Travis County, Texas.[254] Pozner, who has been forced to move several times to avoid harassment and death threats, was accused by Jones of being a crisis actor.

as just one example, and we have the high-level Twitter connection on the same Wikipedia page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Jones#Social_media_restri...

> In November 2022, Musk referred to Jones as a person who "would use the deaths of children for gain, politics or fame" and said Jones would not be unbanned.[119] He changed his position on December 10, 2023 when he reinstated Jones's account.

That was, indeed, one of the people I was referring to.
I stopped Twitter because of constant crypto and hustle spam
I think "fed up" users left the platform long time ago.
I have not seen any crypto ads, but my stream was not what it use to be.

I try to follow STEM teachers and I use to have a good volume of posts till just before Elon took over.