New York | An advertisement that was set to run in some editions of The Washington Post this week calling for Elon Musk to be fired from his role in government was abruptly cancelled, according to one of the advocacy groups that had ordered the ad.

Common Cause said it was told by the newspaper that the ad was being pulled. The full-page ad, known as a wraparound, would have covered the front and back pages of editions delivered to the White House, the Pentagon and Congress, and was planned in collaboration with the Southern Poverty Law Centre Action Fund.