Walmart says it is not advertising on social platform X
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Walmart says it is not advertising on social platform X::Walmart said on Friday it is not advertising on social media platform X, one of the latest brands to say it has dropped the Elon Musk-owned site.
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Dec 1 (Reuters) - Walmart (WMT.N) said on Friday it is not advertising on social media platform X, one of the latest brands to say it has dropped the Elon Musk-owned site.
The platform has struggled to retain advertisers since Musk acquired the company in October 2022, and faced a fresh exodus in recent weeks over rising concern about antisemitic content.
The user had also referenced the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory, which purports that Jewish people and leftists are engineering the ethnic and cultural replacement of white populations with non-white immigrants that will lead to a “white genocide.”
Musk apologized for his post during an interview at a New York Times DealBook event on Wednesday, but hurled expletives against advertisers that suspended their ads, accusing them of “blackmail.”
An executive at a major ad-buying agency, who declined to be named, said X ad sales representatives appeared frustrated in the aftermath of Musk’s outburst against brands and did not have much to say in conversations.
Major brands including Apple (AAPL.O), Walt Disney (DIS.N) and Warner Bros Discovery (WBD.O) also suspended their ads on X this month following a report from liberal watchdog group Media Matters, which said ads had appeared next to antisemitic posts.
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Walmart is still a shitty company that needs to get fucked and die.
I stopped shopping there years ago and I forgot why. Can you remind me? I think it was wage based or because they decimate local business, but I can’t remember and still won’t shop there.
For me it’s how they treat their employees. Remember when they got caught taking life insurance policies out on their employees? Shits fucked
After their last anti gun policy, I banned their products from my house.
They also drive out all other jobs from small communities.
Walmart is anti-gun?
Over the past few years, they started implementing increasingly anti gun policies, especially around the sale of guns and ammo.
Oh, how awful for you.
This promotes systemic racism. Non whites have less access to ammo now.
lol way to go D’Elon, even Walmart doesn’t want to be associated with you.
Elon saying that advertisers are blackmailing him is literally the stick in the bicycle wheel meme.
It’s not blackmail Elon, it’s business. No one wants to do business with your shit heap of a platform.
It’s weird that he thinks of it as “blackmail” though, and a thing that’s happening to “him”.
Blackmail is when someone has damning evidence against you and they threaten to release it unless you do what they want.
We saw the damning evidence. It’s been released. This is the reaction.
Yeah true. This isn’t blackmail, it’s just the consequences of his actions
Narcassists always want to frame things so it doesn’t sound like they did anything wrong. Why everyone needs to be educated to see these actions for what they are, a flailing billionaire that thinks everyone should just agree with them cause they’re rich and give them more money, least in this instance.
As much as I don’t like “cancel culture,” there is validity to discontinuing business with shitty companies. Elon is filling Twitter with shit birds.
It’s not cancel culture though.
In this case, I agree.
Conservatives want compelled speech laws because they know that no one wants to put up with their bigoted shit. Their free speech means that they get to misgender trans people and act like hateful bigots, while at the same time banning a white supremacist from a website means that armed men from the government should arrest the owner because that’s acceptable compelled speech.
Yes I think your accurate in your assessment here, but ultimately, most people don’t like nazi, and brands don’t want to be associated with nazi stuff, so they’re pulling their ads because it’s a Walmart ad next to a pro Hitler post. That just makes sense.
I’m more interested in the fact that the waltons divulged something around 5.36 Billion USD with multiple family members liquidating their entire walmart holdings.
www.marketbeat.com/stocks/NYSE/…/insider-trades/