Twenty-six NGOs and advocacy groups, including those owned by George Soros, Hillary Clinton’s and Obama’s staffers, and European governments, have penned a letter demanding advertising companies boycott Twitter over Elon Musk’s recent purchase.
“Under Musk’s management, Twitter risks becoming a cesspool of misinformation, with your brand attached, polluting our information ecosystem in a time where trust in institutions and news media is already at an all-time low,” the letter reads.
“Your ad dollars can either fund Musk’s vanity project or hold him to account. We call on you to demand Musk uphold these basic standards of community trust and safety, and to pull your advertising spending from Twitter if they are not.”
The letter also warns advertisers of “risks associati[ed] with a platform amplifying hate, extremism, health misinformation, and conspiracy theorists.”
The list of signatories includes Accountable Tech, a Washington, DC-based organization co-founded by Jesse Lehrich, a former spokesperson for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and nephew to Obama adviser David Axelrod; Media Matters for America, founded by David Brock, a renowned Clinton supported; and Access Now, which George Soros supports.
Musk is now aware of the letter, and its signatories, tweeting, “Who funds these organizations that want to control your access to information? Let’s investigate,” in response to a CNN article.
He added that “Sunlight is the best disinfectant.”
Since purchasing Twitter, many Conservatives have noted a massive uptick in traction on the platform, with some getting tens of thousands of new followers in just 24 hours, despite seeing no growth for years.
Many have speculated this is a result of Twitter preemptively changing its algorithms to end shadow banning and throttling before Musk takes the reins and has a chance to look under the hood, so to speak.
