The Disney+ app has been faraway from the video displays of some Tesla vehicles — with some drivers griping that they’ve been caught the center of a nasty feud between CEO Elon Musk and Disney boss Bob Iger.
A Tesla owner took to Musk’s social media platform X and posted a screenshot of the vehicle’s video screen that shows the Disney+ app missing.
“So Disney+ has now been faraway from Tesla vehicles,” the X user who goes by the account name “The Tesla Hoe” posted over the weekend.
“I’m assuming that is in retaliation to Disney pulling promoting from X (which they’ve every right to do).”
The Tesla owner lamented the proven fact that she is going to need to inform her “toddlers [that] we will’t watch Disney+ while in our Tesla and cope with their upset feelings because 2 grown men can’t have a civil discussion and move on.”
“This comes off like a temper tantrum,” @TheTeslaHoe continued. “And I feel like Tesla owners are actually caught within the crossfire of something that is totally not their fault.”
One other Tesla fan who goes by the X user name “Whole Mars Catalog” confirmed that Disney+ was missing from his Model S.
Last week, the Tesla-centric news site Electrek reported that Tesla informed Disney of its decision to remove the Disney+ app from the video displays without explanation as to why it was making the move.
In a follow-up post, Tesla users were informed that they may still access Disney+ by manually typing the URL into the automobile’s web browser.
However the Disney+ app, which often appeared alongside mainstay platforms reminiscent of Netflix, Hulu, YouTube and TikTok, was hidden from view on the theater’s home screen.
The Post has sought comment from Disney and Tesla.
During an appearance on the DealBook Summit business conference Nov. 29, Musk told corporations that stopped promoting on X to “go f–k yourself.”
Earlier that day, Iger told DealBook that a Musk post which appeared to endorse an antisemitic conspiracy theory about Jews promoting mass migration played a job in Disney’s decision to halt ads on X.
“By him taking the position that he took in quite a public manner, we just felt that the association with that position and Elon Musk and X was not necessarily a positive one for us,” Iger said.
Musk has denied that he’s antisemitic.
Musk was asked about firms that ceased promoting on the platform within the wake of a Media Matters report which said that company ads were appearing alongside pro-Nazi content.
“If someone goes to blackmail me with money, go f–k yourself,” Musk said, specifically mentioning Iger.
Every week after Musk’s DealBook appearance, he publicly called on Disney to fireplace Iger after it was alleged in a lawsuit that the Mouse House was running ads on rival social media platforms Facebook and Instagram although those sites permitted child predators to focus on underage users.
“Bob Eiger thinks it’s cool to advertise next to child exploitation material. Real arise guy,” Musk posted, as he misspelled the longtime media mogul’s name.
