Youtube, Meta backtrack on paid ads for ‘Musk’ documentary – Mashable

Updated at 10:32 a.m. CT: According to The Hollywood Reporter , it appears that YouTube and Meta will allow distributor Bleeker Street to run paid ads on Alex Gibney’s Musk documentary. The reversal follows a wave of social media backlash accusing YouTube, Meta, and TikTok of suppressing a film critical of Elon Musk to avoid drawing the ire of the SpaceX and X CEO. This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed. In a comment left under THR’s original report of the story, YouTube’s X account replied that the ads were “temporarily restricted” and are now cleared to run. Meta will also run the ads as well, telling THR that the decision was “an error”. However, TikTok and X have yet to make a decision. You can read our original report of the story below. Musk, Alex Gibney’s four-hour documentary about Elon Musk, hits theaters in two weeks and received rave reviews out of its premiere at the Venice International Film Festival. Yet distributor Bleecker Street can’t buy ads on major social media platforms in order to promote it. Mashable Top Stories According to The Hollywood Reporter , YouTube, TikTok, and Meta, which owns Instagram
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