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All the Major Social Media Networks Are Reportedly Refusing Ads for ‘Musk’

YouTube, TikTok, and Meta's Facebook and Instagram all seem to be either chickening out or taking Elon Musk's side.

Tarun Mottlia

Via Gizmodo

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All the Major Social Media Networks Are Reportedly Refusing Ads for ‘Musk’
Image: A poster with the caption "everyone hates elon", posted around the time Elon Musk briefly achieved trillionaire status. © Leon Neal / Staff via Getty

All of the major social media platforms are refusing to run ads for the upcoming Musk documentary, which hits theaters Oct. 9, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Google-owned YouTube and Meta’s Facebook and Instagram have declined to run trailers for Musk, much to distributor Bleecker Street’s surprise. So has TikTok, which in the U.S. is run by an Oracle-backed joint venture. According to THR, all three tech firms cited reasons related to “political content.”

TikTok does not allow political ads…

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