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Online travel agencies [OTAs] Airbnb and Expedia have suspended their advertising on X [formerly Twitter] with immediate effect.
The companies recently paused their marketing activities with the world’s third-biggest social media network following a report from non-profit group Media Matters alleging that their adverts were appearing alongside pro-Nazi content and hate speech.
The platform and its CEO, Elon Musk, who bought Twitter last October before rebranding it to X in April, have also been accused of antisemitism after Musk put out a critical tweet about Jewish communities and pushed the notion of “hatred against whites”. The CEO swiftly denied the accusations of antisemitism and took legal action against Media Matters, a left-leaning media watchdog group, for alleged defamation.
As a result, other major global corporations including Apple, Uber, Microsoft, Coca-Cola and Comcast have also pulled their advertising from X in recent days, at least for the time being.
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