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.

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.

Last month, YouTube, Meta, X, and TikTok all faced backlash for rejecting ads for the film. YouTube and Google quickly reversed course, calling it an “error.” However, TikTok and X have refused to change their stance, and neither platform has allowed paid advertisements for the film.

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    Billionaires buy media platforms so they can edit content to be in their favour.

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    I didn’t really have much interest in seeing this documentary before, but now that the powers that be are taking actions to suppress it, my interest in seeing it has grown substantially.

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      Haven’t been in a movie theater for years. If this film is shown in town I definitely will. If streamed, will host a viewing party.

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    When you cover Israeli war crimes. Its not much of a leap to censor criticism of your Epstein friends.

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    So what? should we cry? should we pity him? People here can’t post proper news but USA slop drama. And after we wonder why communities go downhill! Post everything about trump and elon and it will.
    Fuck USA. Murderers.

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    Reminder: For the Streisand-effect to work, you have to share this event on your social media accounts. Otherwise it will be just forgotten like all the times JK Rowling got away with shutting up critics.

    Don’t assume someone will just get the Streisand treatment, do something about it!

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    As someone who already knows Elon is a piece of shit, does this document contain any new or interesting information?

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      No, and it contains an AI avatar of Elon Musk that gets interviewed in his place because they (obviously) couldn’t get the dipshit himself for the doc.

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    Billionaire accused of coordinating with other billionaires to manipulate public opinion, coordinates with other billionaires to manipulate public opinion.