Elon Musk with Donald Trump at a state dinner for Chinese language President Xi Jinping.
Picture: Brendan Smialowski/AFP by way of Getty Pictures
There’s at all times skywriting. In accordance with The Hollywood Reporter, many of the main social media platforms have rejected the Musk trailer as a paid advert, citing “political” content material. YouTube, TikTok, Meta, and the Musk-owned Twitter X all stated no, leaving distributor Bleecker Road “internally is scrambling to know why their advert has been rejected.”
TikTok and Meta each don’t permit paid political adverts on their platform — For Meta, due to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. However as anybody with out YouTube Premium will let you know, that platform permits hella marketing campaign adverts, so long as there’s disclosure on the video. Bleecker Road has appealed to all of the non-Musk firms.
To be clear, the Musk trailer is on YouTube. Simply not as a paid advert. The four-hour doc from Alex Gibney traces Musk’s upward failure to the White Home, delivering a scathing portrait of a Wile E. Coyote-style self-proclaimed genius. Musk involves theaters October 9.
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