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The National Football League on Thursday responded to a recent report that pointed out its ads were placed on white nationalist feeds on Elon Musk’s social media platform, X.
“NFL unequivocally denounces any form of hate speech and has absolutely no association with these individuals or any group that promotes racism,” NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy told NBC Sports’ Pro Football Talk. “As soon as this was brought to our attention, we immediately expressed our concerns to X to understand and rectify the issue.”
The NFL did not indicate if they would pull ads from the platform, or if X would remove the ads from the white nationalist accounts. X’s nfl-expresses-concern-over-advertisements-appearing-on-white-nationalist-accounts.html” title=”NFL expresses concern over advertisements appearing on white nationalist accounts”>press relations email responded with an automated response when CNBC asked for comment: “Busy now, please check back later.”
Left-leaning media watchdog site MediaMatters.org first reported on the ad placements on Wednesday. X shares a portion of ad revenue to owners of eligible accounts in which ads…
2023-09-28 14:06:47
Original from www.cnbc.com
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