IBM-led advertising X-odus gains steam as more flee Musk's platform

IBM may have led the latest advertising X-odus from Elon Musk's social media platform, but several other companies reportedly joined Big Blue over the weekend, amid calls for Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino to quit to save face.

As we reported at the end of last week, IBM pulled advertising from the platform in the wake of a report by Media Matters that found several ads from IBM, Apple, Oracle and other big names had appeared alongside antisemitic posts. The Media Matters report itself followed Musk's endorsement of the great replacement conspiracy theory, which claims a global Jewish cabal is trying to flood majority White countries with minority immigrants. Musk has since stressed he is not antisemetic.

Media Matters has since published a second report which claims to have found ads for Major League Baseball, eBay, and pharmaceutical titan Bayer next to posts advocating the murder of LGBTQ activists ...