It almost seems like Elon Musk and X are trying to drive away advertisers.

From American public media, this is Marketplace Tech. I'm Megan McCarty Carino. It is Friday, which means it's time

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it is Friday,

which means it's time for Marketplace TechBites week in review.

On today's show, Instagram is known for pretty pictures,

but a new report shows it lets a lot of ugly and abusive comments remain on the platform.

Plus Doordash has dominated the food delivery race.

Now it looks like Uber may be cashing up.

But first, the social media platform X relies on

advertisers so why is it going to war with them? For more on all this we're joined

by Anita Ramaswami she's a columnist at the

information we started with her bite of the week a number that tells us a little

something about the week that was in tech my number is two billion and that's 2 billion dollars in ad revenue which is how much the

social media platform X run by Elon Musk is expected to make this year. It's a little less than what they were

making in 2023 and 2021. So, you know, lots of lots of heads to discuss on that.

All right, and we will get more into the nitty gritty of some of those numbers.

But first let's talk about kind of the big headline here

with X, kind of doubling down on a lawsuit against a coalition of advertisers. It includes companies like

CVS, Mars, Unilever. What is X alleging here? So what X is alleging is that these advertisers

unfairly coordinated against the social media platform

to basically withhold advertising dollars.

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