The platform attributed the choice to “political content material that goes in opposition to its coverage.”
The practically four-hour documentary known as Musk that covers the eponymous billionaire is constant to generate controversy. The newest transfer noticed TikTok ban the promoting account behind Musk, as first reported by The Hollywood Reporter. The social media platform attributed the ban to a “repeated sample of political content material that violates its insurance policies,” based on the report.
The documentary, directed by Alex Gibney and distributed by Bleecker Road, noticed a restricted opening weekend beginning October 9 the place it was enjoying at 4 theaters in New York and Los Angeles. Following an preliminary grossing of round $70,000 throughout its opening weekend, showings of Musk expanded throughout many extra US theaters on October 16. TikTok’s “everlasting suspension” of the promotional account comes simply earlier than the documentary was set to be extra broadly distributed. Bleecker Road advised THR that it will enchantment the choice and try to get it reversed.
Other than TikTok, the Musk documentary has run into promotional advert points with different social media platforms, together with Meta and YouTube. Nonetheless, these two platforms finally allowed for trailer adverts selling the movie’s launch, with a Meta spokesperson telling THR the preliminary determination was “an error,” whereas YouTube posted an announcement that it has been “cleared to run.” X, which is owned by Musk, has beforehand refused to run the trailer for the doc, based on an earlier report from THR.
