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False Claim of the Week: Coca-Cola and General Motors Pulled Their Advertising from NBC and ABC Because the Networks Did Not Broadcast Donald Trump’s National Address

NewsGuard’s “False Claim of the Week” highlights a claim from NewsGuard’s False Claim Fingerprints, a proprietary database of provably false claims and their debunks. The claim that Coca-Cola and General Motors pulled their advertising from NBC and ABC because they did not broadcast Donald Trump’s July 16, 2026, address is NewsGuard’s “False Claim of the Week” due to its widespread appearance across social media platforms and websites, its high engagement levels, and the high-profile nature of the sources promoting it. Those three factors, as well as its significant subject matter and potential for harm, make it our False Claim of the Week.

Debunk: Coke and GM Did Not Pull Their Ads from NBC and ABC After the Networks Declined to Run Trump’s July 16 National Address

By Isobel McClure

What’s happening: Conservative social media accounts are claiming that Coca-Cola and General Motors pulled their advertising from NBC and ABC to protest the two networks’ decision not to broadcast President Donald Trump’s July 16 national address on election security.

The claim originated as satire,...

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