BREAKING: Coronavirus leads to cancellation of South by Southwest
The South by Southwest music, film and technology conference, is the latest victim of coronavirus concerns.
The conference this year had several high profile speakers in place, including former presidential candidates Hillary Rodham Clinton, Beto O'Rourke and Andrew Yang and Steve Jobs' widow Laurene Powell Jobs and rockers Ozzy Osbourne, director Judd Apatow and to Kim Kardashian West. Nearly 300,000 people attended in 2019.Drop outs: Facebook pulls out of SXSW over coronavirus fears
Many companies had pulled out of SXSW, including Twitter, Facebook, Apple, IBM and Netflix and there's been much local debate about the organizer's decisions to continue.
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