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Kylie Robison

Elon Musk's X claims it's now a 'video-first platform' as it tries to reverse an advertiser exodus that has cost it billions in value

X owner Elon Musk lifting a glass (Credit: Antonio Masiello/Getty Images)

Elon Musk's X, long known as a service for posting short text-based messages about anything and everything, claims it's "now a video-first platform."

The assertion, made by the company today in a blog post that was aimed at advertisers, follows an exodus of marketers from the platform including Disney, IBM, and Apple after Musk’s assertion that an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory was the “absolute truth.” That implosion plus other missteps have caused the value of the business to plummet from its $44 billion sales price last year by more than 70% according to Fidelity, one of X's investors.

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