After Disney abandoned advertising on X, most of ESPN’s accounts were hacked

Most of ESPN’s accounts are inactive after yesterday Disney announced Friday Disney’s decision comes after platform owner Elon Musk posted posts endorsing anti-Semitic and white power accounts. terrible announcement spot Inactivity yesterday noted that the main ESPN account has nearly 50 million followers.

While there was some activity on a few accounts, the main ESPN account, NBA on ESPN, first shoot, NFL on ESPN, ESPN+, the other account has not posted, replied to, or liked anything since at least Friday as of this writing.Other accounts such as ESPN football club, ESPN college footballand sports centereach posted or retweeted once yesterday, while some, e.g. ESPN sports channel and ESPN PR Accountactive throughout the day.

Disney joins other major advertisers including Apple, Warner Bros. Discovery Channel, IBM and Comcast/NBCUniversal. A report by the nonprofit Media Matters noted Musk’s posts as well as celebrating the Third Reich and Adolf Hitler.

X is one of the most popular places to discuss sports online, so a hack of ESPN’s account could spell trouble for the platform, at least symbolically. ESPN’s account hack may not suppress discussion about sports like NFL football, college basketball and Formula 1 ranking today, but ESPN has a large following on the platform, and it doesn’t generate traffic from its own posts.

ESPN’s silence on X doesn’t appear to have benefited Meta’s Threads — its main account is there I haven’t posted in a few weeks..There just isn’t a good way to keep up with the specific conversation about Meta’s X alternatives. That is to say, Thread started testing hashtags Considering the number of posts in Australia – if the feature eventually comes to the US, it could give it a more immediate feel than the platform has had so far. terrible announcement The network is reportedly active on Meta’s other platforms, Instagram and Facebook.