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Apple, Disney, Warner Bros., Comcast, and Lions Gate have paused online ad campaigns on X after owner Elon Musk made antisemitic comments on the platform.

The White House on Friday accused Elon Musk of repeating a “hideous” antisemitic lie on his social media site X this week, calling it an “abhorrent promotion of antisemitic and racist hate” that “runs against our core values as Americans.

The iPhone maker had been one of the social network’s biggest advertisers, spending as much as $100m a year

“We condemn this abhorrent promotion of antisemitic and racist hate in the strongest terms,” the White House said of Elon Musk’s controversial X post.

IBM on Thursday said it had immediately suspended all advertising on Elon Musk-owned X after a report found its ads were placed next to content promoting Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party.

Apple, Disney, Warner Bros., and Lions Gate have paused their online ad campaigns on X after owner Elon Musk made antisemitic comments on the platform.

Disney, Apple and Lionsgate halted marketing on X, formerly Twitter, as Elon Musk faced a furor over antisemitic abuse on his social media platform.

Another major advertiser is pulling its ads from X amid a growing backlash to antisemitic content on the platform. Axios reports that Apple has opted to “pause” all advertising on the platform after its ads were discovered near pro-Nazi posts and X owner Elon Musk appeared to publicly endorse an antisemitic conspiracy theory.

The iPhone maker had been one of the social network’s biggest advertisers, spending as much as $100m a year

Advertisers are fleeing social media platform X over concerns about their ads showing up next to pro-Nazi content, hate speech on the site in general or billionaire owner Elon Musk’s own tweets endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory.

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