Apple reportedly suspended advertising on Twitter last night after the White House accused Elon Musk of “abhorrent promotion of anti-Semitic and racist hate”.
According to the US news website Axios, Silicon Valley tech giant is said to have paused business with X, formerly known as Twitter, after Mr Musk endorsed a tweet saying that Jewish people harbour “hatred against whites”.
Lionsgate Entertainment, the film studio which is behind movies including The Hunger Games franchise and La La Land, has also pulled advertising, Bloomberg reported.
It comes after Andrew Bates, the White House deputy press secretary, said the Tesla billionaire had repeated a “hideous lie” by calling an anti-Semitic tweet “the actual truth”.
Mr Musk was embroiled in a new anti-Semitism row this week after responding to the tweet, which read: “Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of dialectic hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them. » | James Titcomb | Friday, November 17, 2023
