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Walmart Stops Ads on X, Joining the Advertising Exodus
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The retailer says its halt isn’t a boycott, but due to poor performance.
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SAN FRANCISCO >> Walmart is the latest company to join the growing flock of major advertisers to pull spending from X, Elon Musk’s beleaguered social media company, amid concerns about hate speech — as well as reaching a sizeable audience on the platform.
Musk recently said in an interview with the New York Times that he didn’t want advertisers who left X to return, in incendiary comments in which he suggested the advertising decline could “kill” the company.
Walmart is the latest company to publicly join the growing flock of major advertisers to pull spending from X, Elon Musk’s beleaguered social media company, amid concerns about hate speech — as well as reaching a sizeable audience on the platform.
Retail giant Walmart on Friday announced that it would cease advertising on social media platform X after owner Elon Musk advised companies not to do so if they intended to use their money to influenc...
Retail giant Walmart on Friday revealed it no longer advertises on X, becoming the latest major corporation to pull ads from the Elon Musk-owned social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
By Nathaniel Meyersohn and Parija Kavilanz, CNN New York (CNN) — Walmart confirmed on Friday that it is not advertising on X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk and formerly known as Twitter. “We aren’t advertising on X as we’ve found other platforms to better reach our customers,” a Walma…
Musk recently said in an interview with the New York Times that he didn’t want advertisers who left X to return, in incendiary comments in which he suggested the advertising decline could “kill” the company.
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