Media Matters reported earlier that X adverts for corporations like Apple, Bravo, IBM, Oracle, and Xfinity had been positioned close to antisemitic content material [File]
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The European Union, Apple, Disney, and Lionsgate are among the corporations which have stopped advertising on X (previously Twitter) after proprietor Elon Musk was criticised for agreeing with antisemitic posts, and different tech corporations’ adverts had been discovered to have been positioned close to pro-Nazi content material.
The nonprofit group Media Matters reported earlier within the week that adverts for corporations like Apple, Bravo, IBM, Oracle, and Xfinity had been positioned close to antisemitic content material. IBM condemned the scenario and mentioned it will pause advertising on X whereas it investigated.
Musk reacted angrily and known as Media Matters “evil”.
The Hindu additionally discovered that adverts by UNICEF India and Gates Foundation India, amongst others, had been positioned beneath the accounts of customers selling hate speech.
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“The split second court opens on Monday, X Corp will be filing a thermonuclear lawsuit against Media Matters and ALL those who colluded in this fraudulent attack on our company,” posted Musk on Saturday, together with an extended assertion claiming that media shops had been attacking X’s income streams and “deceiving advertisers”.
Separately, the X proprietor claimed that the phrases “decolonization” and “from the river to the sea” – utilized in previous weeks on X to demand an finish to Israeli occupation and to recognise Palestinian land rights – would lead to customers being suspended. Musk claimed these phrases and comparable ones “necessarily imply genocide”.
