- Washington Post cut an adsing by asking Trump to light Elon Musk, said Common Common Group Common.
- The common cause said it had an agreement of $ 115,000 to run advertising in the post -post -post publications.
- The post initially approved the nature of the ad and did not say why it was rejected, Org said.
Washington Post removed an ad calling for President Donald Trump in “Elon Musk Fire” that was scheduled to run in some of his print editions of Tuesday, according to one of the organizations that ordered the ad.
The Lawyer Group has agreed to pay $ 115,000 for the post to run an ad by criticizing billionaire Elon Musk wrapped in newspapers and a similar advertisement within the newspaper, the Organization for Business Insider.
Advertising is part of a larger campaign than the usual cause called “Elon Musk Fire”, calling on people to sign a petition calling for Musk’s removal as head of the new government efficiency department.
The ad, which the usual cause later posted on its website, contains Elon Musk laughing after a White House image and says with great text, “Who is running this place: Donald Trump or Elon Musk?”
The smallest text under the image says that CEO of Tesla “has created chaos and confusion and has put our livelihood at risk” and notes that “the Constitution allows only one president at a time”.
The group said the post initially approved the nature of the AD, but that the post informed the common cause on Friday about its decision to remove the ad wrapping the advertisement.
The post said it would allow the common cause to direct its similar advertising within the work, according to the organization, but the usual cause was reduced.
“Deeply disturbing that our advertisement was censored and rejected without a valid reason,” said Virginia Kase Solomón, President and CEO of Common Cause, and Margaret Huang, President and CEO of Southern Poverty Center, in a joint statement . The common cause planned to pay advertising in cooperation with the Action Fund of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
“We believe that this is limiting our freedom of expression in a critical time in the history of our nation. This seems to show Washington Post is feeling pressure to cover the news in a certain way,” said solomón and huang.
The post refused to comment on his internal decisions regarding advertising campaigns. His advertising instructions say the post “accepts all types of advertising and does not fall advertising unless there is a compelling reason to do so” but “nevertheless reserves the right to position, revise or refuse to publish any ad.”
Advertising is part of a larger campaign than the usual cause called “Elon Musk Fire”, calling on people to sign a petition calling for Musk’s removal as the head of the Doge. The group says 60,000 signatures have been collected and has organized thousands of calls for Congress representatives.
Musk, the richest person in the world, runs several companies including X, Spacex, The Boring Company and Tesla. He is now leading Doge, the new commission that aims to reduce the federal rules of federal spending and cut the regulations.
The decision of the post to attract advertising comes just a month after Elon Musk Nodhi a friendship with the owner of the exit billionaire, Jeff Bezos, in a series of posts X. Musk and Bezos own competitive enterprises, Spacex and Blue Origin, and have exchanged nice knots for years.
In the January posts, Musk and Bezos congratulated each other on the missile omissions of their companies, and Musk posted clips from the 2008 comedy “Step Brothers”, one of which showed her characters asking: ” just the best friends? ”
Here are the ads that the usual cause said it was planning to run in Washington Post:
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