IBM Suspends Ads On X: X races to contain damage after Elon Musk endorses antisemitic post
LOS ANGELES: Less than 24 hours after Elon Musk endorsed an antisemitic post on X as "the actual truth" of what Jewish people were doing, IBM paused its advertising on the social media platform as X's CEO, Linda Yaccarino, and others at the company scrambled Thursday to contain the fallout.X employees said Thursday they had gotten calls from advertisers wondering why Musk was making comments seen as antisemitic and why their ads were showing up next to white nationalist and Nazi content, according to internal messages viewed by New York Times.IBM cut off about $1 million in advertising spending it had committed to the platform for the last three months of the year, the messages said.In a note to employees Thursday, Yaccarino said "X is a platform for everyone" and that "discrimination by ...