Ad Execs Urge Twitter CEO To Resign After Musk Endorses Antisemitic Post
In the aftermath of IBM, Disney and Apple pausing spending on X, formerly known as Twitter, top advertising executives made a personal appeal to CEO Linda Yaccarino.
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In the aftermath of IBM, Disney and Apple pausing spending on X, formerly known as Twitter, top advertising executives made a personal appeal to CEO Linda Yaccarino.
Advertisers are fleeing social media platform X over concerns about their ads showing up next to pro-Nazi content and hate speech on the site in general.
The White House on Friday condemned Elon Musk's endorsement of what it called a "hideous" anti-Semitic conspiracy theory on X, while major US companies paused advertisements on his social media site.
Hollywood is joining the growing advertiser boycott of X, formerly known as Twitter -- with four of the top five major studios pulling their ads from the platform in response to the growing amount of antisemitic content as well as owner Elon Musk's expressing agreement with an antisemitic post.
Advertisers are leaving and Tesla investors are speaking out after Musk's tweets