A growing list of companies has suspended advertising from Elon Musk’s social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, amid the ongoing fallout over antisemitic content.
Apple, Disney, IBM and other brands suspending ads from Elon Musk’s X
A report released Thursday identified several large companies — including tech firms, health-care organizations and sports teams — whose ads appeared next to pro-Nazi posts. The report by the left-leaning nonprofit Media Matters for America said the ads had appeared next to tweets that included memes portraying Nazism as a spiritual awakening and Adolf Hitler quotes.
A day earlier, Musk had tweeted agreement with an antisemitic conspiracy theory. In response to an X user who had blamed the rise in online antisemitism on Jews, alleging they promoted “hatred against whites,” the billionaire wrote, “You have said the actual truth.”
That set off a wave of criticism from advertisers, civil rights leaders and the Biden administration. The corporate defections soon followed:
