TikTok bans Musk documentary account - The Verge

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Just ahead of the wider release of Alex Gibney’s Musk documentary, TikTok has banned the film’s social media account from its platform. TikTok did not immediately respond to a request for comment. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film’s distributor, Bleecker Street, was informed Friday afternoon that a “permanent suspension” was imminent. Bleecker Street has not yet responded to a request for comment from The Verge.

While TikTok has no official affiliation with Elon Musk, part owner Larry Ellison appears in the film via a text message offering to help Musk fund his Twitter purchase.

Banning the documentary’s account, however, marks a serious escalation, and one laced with a dash of irony — shortly before the account was removed, it posted that people should see the movie “before it gets shut down.”

Correction October 18th: The third paragraph originally read that “YouTube and Google quickly reversed course.” That has been corrected to read “YouTube and Meta.”

Update, October 18th: TikTok US spokesperson Mahsau Cullinane confirmed to The Verge that the ad account for the Musk doc has “been restored after an error.”

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