A new report claims that Apple has again paused advertising on social media powerhouse X, in protest of owner Elon Musk’s promotion of, and Apple’s advertising adjacent to, antisemitic content.
The report on Friday afternoon by Axios saying that Apple has paused advertising on X, cites unnamed sources. It comes a day after IBM has done the same, for the same reasons.
IBM and Apple’s moves come after Musk promoted a comment on X saying that the US Jewish community had been “pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.” Furthermore, a report by Media Matters on Thursday pointed out big-tech advertising adjacent to “far-right” posts.
Specifically, Amazon, Apple, IBM, and Oracle were named as ad-buyers with adjacency to the content.
After Media Matters report, X’s CEO Linda Yaccarino made a statement addressing claims of antisemitism. She did not address the Thursday report, however.
An unnamed executive also spoke…
2023-11-17 15:33:59
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