Numerous Democrats, including those who have complained about billionaire Elon Musk's management of X, formerly Twitter, are spending large sums of money to advertise on the platform, The Washington Post reported Monday.
Some of them have harshly criticized Musk X's leadership since he took over the platform in October 2022 over issues like “misinformation,” but they still spent tens of thousands on the platform. seconds to a review of the Post. The data ranges from political ads that ran in February 2023 to those that will run in January 2024, with seven Democrats among the nine top spenders and the largest spending more than $169,000.
More than 50 Democratic candidates, campaigns and caucuses have been spending on X to target potential voters and donors, the Post reported. Democrats and Republicans are spending similar amounts to advertise on the platform.
Dozens of House Democrats, including Rep. Adam Schiff of California and Rep. Dan Goldman of New York, wrote of their “serious concern that X is not complying with its own policies governing the promotion of disinformation and hateful, violent and terrorist propaganda videos”. which surprisingly have been used by the company for profit” in a November letter to Musk and X CEO Linda Yaccarino.
However, Schiff spent more than $90,000 on political ads on X, according to the Post. “The Goldman campaign halted all spending on X as of November 11,” campaign spokeswoman Simone Kanter told the Daily Caller News Foundation. It was stopped due to “rampant misinformation on the platform,” Kanter added in comments to the post.
Montana Sen. Jon Tester was the top Democratic ad buyer, spending nearly $170,000 on more than 200 ads on the platform, including some in December, according to the Post. California Rep. Katie Porter, Arizona Rep. Ruben Gallego, Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown and California Gov. Gavin Newsom each spent more than $74,000, according to the Post.
Eight majors corporations They recently pulled their advertising on X, with several leaving shortly after a November report by the left-wing activist group Media Affairs alleged that advertisements appear alongside anti-Semitic content on the platform, as well as a post by Musk that was interpreted by some as anti-Semitic. Apple, Comcast, IBM, Lionsgate, Paramount Global, Sony and Warner Bros. Discovery pulled their ad.
Democratic deputies, led by Schiffand including Gallego, sent a letter to Musk in October pressuring him to censor “election disinformation” at X after he reportedly fired staff working on the issue.
X, Schiff, Tester, Porter, Gallego, Brown and Newsom did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
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