3 posts tagged ‘white house’
Disney, Apple, and more suspend Twitter ads amid Elon Musk antisemitism scandal
AV Club,
Several of the biggest companies on the planet—including Disney and Apple, plus Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes studio Lionsgate—have suspended ads on the social networking service we’ll just go ahead and keep calling Twitter today. This comes after the company’s owner, Elon Musk, made a post on Wednesday in which he… Read more...
White House condemns Musk's antisemitism; Apple finally suspends advertising on Twitter
Boing Boing,
Yesterday, Elon Musk promoted an antisemitic conspiracy theory and described it as "actual truth," and in the aftermath Media Matters posted an exposé on the brands whose ads appear against such material on the site. IBM, with its uneasy past of collaboration with the Third Reich, was first to jump. — Read the rest
The US Secret Service released a beauty shot of the cocaine found in the White House
Remember in July when someone found cocaine at the White House? It was spotted inside a cubby near the West Wing entrance where staff-led tours enter the building. The Secret Service investigated but couldn't determine to whom the blow belonged as there are no security cameras with a view of the cubbies. — Read the rest