TikTok permanently bans ‘Musk’ documentary advertising account

A four-hour documentary about Elon Musk continues to meet resistance from social media platforms, with TikTok banning the film’s advertising account. According to a story in The Hollywood Reporter, the documentary’s distributor Bleecker Street was recently notified by TikTok that the account had received a “permanent suspension” due to its political content. TechCrunch has reached…

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Alex Gibney Says He Got “Nothing Back” From Elon Musk When Reaching Out After Doc Legal Threat

Musk documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney responded Sunday to a documentary legal threat from Elon Musk. “I reached out immediately… But he clearly wasn’t interested in talking. We made so many formal outreaches to him, and with the exception of his remarks on Twitter, we received nothing back,” Gibney said during a keynote conversation in Toronto….

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#Alex Gibney on the State of Investigative Documentaries and the Stories That Are Currently “Difficult to Get Made” 

#Alex Gibney on the State of Investigative Documentaries and the Stories That Are Currently “Difficult to Get Made” 

Alex Gibney on the State of Investigative Documentaries and the Stories That Are Currently “Difficult to Get Made”  With an Academy Award under his belt and a production company that routinely works with top distributors, Alex Gibney is one of the privileged few name brands in documentary film. After helming a long list of films…

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