{"id":627730,"date":"2026-09-26T03:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T03:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/627730\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T03:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T03:28:13","slug":"youtube-tiktok-meta-and-x-reject-musk-trailer-paid-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/627730\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube, TikTok, Meta, and X Reject Musk Trailer Paid Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Elon Musk with Donald Trump at a state dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping.
\n Photo: Brendan Smialowski\/AFP via Getty Images\n <\/p>\n

There\u2019s always skywriting. According to The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, most of the major social media platforms have rejected the Musk trailer as a paid ad, citing \u201cpolitical\u201d content. YouTube, TikTok, Meta, and the Musk-owned Twitter X all said no, leaving distributor Bleecker Street \u201cinternally is scrambling to understand why their ad has been rejected.\u201d<\/p>\n

TikTok and Meta both do not allow paid political ads on their platform \u2014 For Meta, because of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. But as anyone without YouTube Premium will tell you, that platform allows hella campaign ads, as long as there\u2019s disclosure on the video. Bleecker Street has appealed to all the non-Musk companies.<\/p>\n

To be clear, the Musk trailer is on YouTube. Just not as a paid ad. The four-hour doc from Alex Gibney traces Musk\u2019s upward failure to the White House, delivering a scathing portrait of a Wile E. Coyote-style self-proclaimed genius. Musk comes to theaters October 9.<\/p>\n

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