"Advertisers are worried about their ads on Twitter being placed next to Holocaust denial tweets, or next to porn, or perhaps next to Holocaust denial-themed porn, but they are now weighing that against the imperative to maintain good relations with the people in charge of the government. 

"This is the kind of straightforward corruption that Lyndon Johnson used to do regularly, but he did not approach the scale of it under Trump/Musk. Whatever else you say about him, Trump is now clearly the most personally corrupt president in US history, and it's not even close."

— Wall Street Journal reader John Lacny, in the comments section. X Hinted at Possible Deal Trouble in Talks With Ad Giant to Increase Spending