Under Fire
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| Initial release | October 21, 1983 |
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| Directors | Roger Spottiswoode |
| Box office | 5. 696 million USD |
| Composers | Jerry Goldsmith |
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| ID | 1010314 |
About Under Fire
A pair of news correspondents chronicling the final days of the corrupt Samoza Regime in Nicaragua find themselves under fire from both sides. After an American news reporter is killed in Nicaragua, two of his fellow journalists choose to participate actively in the revolution. As the Samoza power base falls, they face dilemmas concerning their relationship with each other and their loss of professional objectivity.
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X ad boycott gathers pace amid antisemitism storm
By James ClaytonNorth America technology reporter
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The ad boycott follows an investigation by left-leaning pressure group Media Matters for America, which said it found ads bought by the companies next to posts including Hitler quotes, praise of Nazis and Holocaust denial.
On Thursday, IBM became The FirstContent ='JJ Lin'> company to pull its advertising from The SiteContent ='JJ Lin'> , saying the juxtaposition of its ads with Nazi Content was " completely unacceptable".
X claims that it has stronger brand safety controls than other social networks and that hate speech and extremism has fallen on The PlatformContent ='JJ Lin'> despite large cuts to The CompanyContent ='JJ Lin'> 's safety team.
Several outside groups disagree with The CompanyContent ='JJ Lin'> 's assessment and say that extremism and hate speech have increased under Mr Musk's leadership.
It is unclear how much of X's revenue currently comes from ads, because it's now a private company and no longer publishes quarterly reports.
But before Mr Musk took over The FirmContent ='JJ Lin'> , advertising made up about 90% of Twitter revenue.
Mr Musk has attempted to change its reliance on ad dollars by trying to create a paid-membership tier.
If you pay a monthly fee, you can have a blue tick by Your NameContent ='JJ Lin'> and your Content will be boosted. Yet that still makes up a tiny fraction of revenue.
In an interview with The BbcContent ='JJ Lin'> in April, Mr Musk said " most" advertisers had returned.
Three months later he acknowledged in a post on X that ad revenue had fallen by 50%.
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It is also hard to square advertisers' fears that The PlatformContent ='JJ Lin'> does not moderate Content enough, with Mr Musk's commitment to free speech.
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" I do not want my ads anywhere near Nazis and I would say that 99% of brands would agree with that, " He Said .
" To lose advertisers over Nazi voices is the dumbest policy you could imagine. "
Although Mr Musk is The WorldContent ='JJ Lin'> 's richest man, he borrowed billions to buy Twitter and has to pay interest on those loans.
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Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com
