Since taking control of Twitter, Elon Musk has come under constant attack from leftists and “woke” advertisers over his pledge to keep “fighting for free speech in America.”
As he continues to rid Twitter of censorship and restore banned accounts, his critics are ramping up their efforts.
Democrats, left-wing groups, “woke” celebrities, and their allies in the media are afraid they will not be able to censor people and control the narrative now that Musk owns Twitter.
Musk is not backing down, however, and even threatened to make an alternative smartphone if Apple and Google try to ban Twitter from their app stores.
Meanwhile, Musk must deal with the advertiser boycott because Twitter needs revenue.
Below is the full list of advertisers who pulled their ads from Twitter:
An asterisk indicates a company has issued a statement or was publicly reported as stopping its ads on Twitter and subsequently confirmed.
Otherwise, companies identified on this list are “quiet quitters,” based on a Media Matters analysis of Pathmatics data.
- Abbott Laboratories
- Allstate Corporation
- AMC Networks
- American Express Company
- AT&T
- Big Heart Petcare
- BlackRock, Inc.
- BlueTriton Brands, Inc.
- Boston Beer Company
- CA Lottery (California State Lottery)
- CenturyLink (Lumen Technologies, Inc.)
- Chanel
- Chevrolet*
- Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc.*
- Citigroup, Inc.
- CNN
- Dell
- Diageo
- DirecTV
- Discover Financial Services
- Fidelity
- First National Realty Partners
- Ford*
- Heineken N.V.
- Hewlett-Packard (HP)
- Hilton Worldwide
- Inspire Brands, Inc.
- Jeep*
- Kellogg Company
- Kohl’s Department Stores, Inc.
- Kyndryl*
- LinkedIn Corporation
- MailChimp (The Rocket Science Group)
- Marriott International, Inc.
- Mars Petcare
- Mars, Incorporated
- Merck & Co. (Merck Sharp & Dohme MSD)*
- Meta Platforms, Inc. (formerly Facebook, Inc.)
- MoneyWise (Wise Publishing, Inc.)
- Nestle
- Novartis AG*
- Pernod Ricard
- PlayPass
- The Coca-Cola Company
- The Kraft Heinz Company
- Tire Rack
- Verizon
- Wells Fargo
- Whole Foods Market IP
- Yum! Brands
