Trudeau-funded media demands pro sports boycott Elon Musk’s X
https://thepostmillennial.com/trudeau-funded-media-demands-pro-sports-boycott-elon-musks-x
Hockey conversation on X "is often more entertaining than the games themselves."
On Saturday, Canadian news outlet The Globe and Mail, which received a government subsidy in 2019, suggested that due to the "growing toxicity" on the social media platform X, professional sports leagues should cut ties with the platform.
In the article, The Globe explains how the Sportsnet account has been posting hockey clips as memes and that the hockey conversation on X "is often more entertaining than the games themselves."
However, it claims that X owner Elon Musk "torched what little brand value remains of the service he bought only 13 months" when he told advertisers to "f*ck off" earlier this week. The Globe says that the organizations should join the advertiser boycott that was sparked after a Media Matters hit piece about Musk was published.
The Globe argued that because sports contracts have a "morality clause" and organizations use the platform to support social causes "It’s hard to understand why any of them would want to continue engaging with Musk’s capriciousness and his broken platform."
According to True North, The Globe and Mail was one of several news organizations that received money from the Canadian government's $595 million subsidy program for media organizations in 2019. The outlet also reports that The Globe received $2 million worth of untendered contracts from the federal government.