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Peter Kafka: If Elon Musk's X threatened a big ad company with government interference, that's not OK

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After Elon Musk bought Twitter, advertisers fled. Since then, he's renamed it X and put Linda Yaccarino in charge of getting them back.Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesElon Musk's X — the thing we used to call Twitter — lost lots of advertisers after he bought it.Now he is trying to get them back and, reportedly, using the implied threat of government interference to do so.This seems like an opportunity for people concerned about government …

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Peter Kafka: If Elon Musk's X threatened a big ad company with government interference, that's not OK

After Elon Musk bought Twitter, advertisers fled. Since then, he's renamed it X and put Linda Yaccarino in charge of getting them back.Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesElon Musk's X — the thing we used to call Twitter — lost lots of advertisers after he bought it.Now he is trying to get them back and, reportedly, using the implied threat of government interference to do so.This seems like an opportunity for people concerned about government …

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If X threatened an ad group with US government interference, we've hit a high level of coercion, and conservatives who complained of Big Tech bias should object

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If Elon Musk's X threatened a big ad company with government interference, that's very bad

Elon Musk's X — the thing we used to call Twitter — lost lots of advertisers after he bought it.Now he is trying to get them back and, reportedly, using the implied threat of government interference to do so.This seems like an opportunity for people concerned about government involvement in social media to pipe up. When will that happen?Here's a 100% hypothetical scenario: Say a Big Tech CEO calls up a big ad agency and tells them it'd be a good…

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