Posted on 11/28/2022 9:35:58 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Once Twitter passed out of Leftist control, when billionaire Elon Musk purchased it and took it private, activist companies and pressure groups sprang into action to isolate the social media platform. They are now taking a victory lap over driving 50 major advertisers off the popular platform in protest of its new pro-free-speech policies.
On Tuesday, left-wing media monitor Media Matters published an article misleadingly called “In less than a month, Elon Musk has driven away half of Twitter’s top 100 advertisers.” In fact, of the 50 companies listed in the article, a mere seven “issued a statement or was publicly reported as stopping its ads on Twitter and subsequently confirmed.” But what about the other 43?
Otherwise, companies identified on this list are “quiet quitters,” based on a Media Matters analysis of Pathmatics data. These companies were previously advertising on Twitter, but then stopped for a significant period of time following direct outreach, controversies, and warnings from media buyers.
In other words, Marxist busybodies pressured these companies to stop advertising on Twitter, to punish and hopefully shut down the platform before it could spread any more dangerous dissident ideas.
Despite these advertising losses, Elon Musk (who acquired the platform in late October) has continued his rash of brand unsafe actions — including amplifying conspiracy theories, unilaterally reinstating banned accounts such as that of former President Donald Trump, courting and engaging with far-right accounts, and instituting a haphazard verification scheme that allowed extremists and scammers to purchase a blue check. This last move, in particular, opened the platform up to a variety of fraud and brand imitations.
The horror! By opening Twitter up to diverse points of view, Musk has rendered it “brand unsafe,”
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For the interested, here is the list of the advertisers Media Matters identified as halting advertising on Twitter. Those indicated with an asterisk are the ones that publicly acknowledged doing so. Patronize at your own discretion.
Abbott Laboratories
Allstate Corporation
AMC Networks
American Express Company
AT&T
Big Heart Petcare
BlackRock, Inc.
BlueTriton Brands, Inc.
Boston Beer Company
CA Lottery (California State Lottery)
CenturyLink (Lumen Technologies, Inc.)
Chanel
Chevrolet*
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc.*
Citigroup, Inc.
CNN
Dell
Diageo
DirecTV
Discover Financial Services
Fidelity
First National Realty Partners
Ford*
Heineken N.V.
Hewlett-Packard (HP)
Hilton Worldwide
Inspire Brands, Inc.
Jeep*
Kellogg Company
Kohl’s Department Stores, Inc.
Kyndryl*
LinkedIn Corporation
MailChimp (The Rocket Science Group)
Marriott International, Inc.
Mars Petcare
Mars, Incorporated
Merck & Co. (Merck Sharp & Dohme MSD)*
Meta Platforms, Inc. (formerly Facebook, Inc.)
MoneyWise (Wise Publishing, Inc.)
Nestle
Novartis AG*
Pernod Ricard
PlayPass
The Coca-Cola Company
The Kraft Heinz Company
Tire Rack
Verizon
Wells Fargo
Whole Foods Market IP
Yum! Brands
America is headed towards becoming the worst concentration camp the world has ever seen.
Communists believe destroying economies is more important than building them.
What, Pfizer didn’t drop?
More probably, it never bothered to advertise on Twitter, as the US Government did that for it.
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Don’t be surprised if Elon picks up a hundred new advertisers.
The Left thinks they are so smart.
Not a Twitter user, but it looks like using it now will be more pleasant now that all the garbage ads are gone.
There are still plenty of ads on Twitter.
Saw ads for the first time this week.
The left are stupid.
Is it an exercise of these companies free speech to choose to or not to advertise on Twitter?
While millions more are signing up. Here’s hoping Elon sticks it to them when they come back.
commies do not care if they reduce the country to a pile of rubble as long as they are in control
Big Pharma is on the list. Medical schools are teaching CRT now.
These are the same leftist controlled companies I see everytime. Wish we could do more to destroy them but many have psuedo monopolies in thier markets.
based on that list, I guess my next car will be a transplant.
I resisted Twitter for a decade, but Elon got me at “ChiefTwit”.
i encourage you and others to join to show support.
I agree, but we have to do it right...take the election map, and wall off every stinking blue area, and make them trade with us for every single item they need...food, water, power.
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