“To be fair, I’ve always wanted to tell this to advertisers too”
Elon Musk on X antisemitism controversy: “Don’t advertise. Go f*** yourself”
Submitted 11 months ago by flumph@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
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jetsetdorito@lemm.ee 11 months ago
bruhduh@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Especially to YouTube advertisers
rab@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Is Musk on drugs or something? Genuinely seems to be losing his mind
foobaz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ketamine
SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Desperation affects everyone, even the cocky, far-right, ultra-rich extremists.
GONADS125@lemmy.world 11 months ago
“But those clarifications were ignored by the media and essentially I handed a loaded gun to those who hate me and arguably to those who are antisemitic. And for that I’m quite sorry, that was not my intention.”
You hear that? He’s sorry.
Sorry that he’s facing consequences from his actions.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Shooting yourself in the foot seems to hurt
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 11 months ago
He’s probably not all that worried about Xwitter. He’s got billions to spare. Be like wrecking your Ferrari, blaming the wet road when you were just going too fast, and still having 4 more in the garage.
He’s just worried about saving face and how the boards of his companies are going to view his behavior.
c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 11 months ago
He doesn’t care about Twitter cause he never wanted to buy it. Claiming he was going to was just a justification so he could sell Tesla stock without shareholders questioning it.
The dude’s got a habit of using social media to influence the stock value of his own companies so he can buy low and sell high. The Twitter acquisition was a complete farce to cover up his market manipulation tactics.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Exactly.
He thought Twitter was owned by leftwing libtards that would never in a million years sell to him. It was just puffing smoke trying to manipulate stocks and prove a point about the “evil liberalism” of twitter.
But that wasnt true.
Twitter was run by business people, as a business, and when his insane offer came in to buy it, they leapt at the chance.
and when they did that, he got scared and tried to back out… until he was legally forced to make good on his offer.
and unlike spacex, where they creative an insulative crumplezone of people around Musk that ignores 99% of his requests and demands, Twitter is run by him bare metal. and he cant stand that its collapsing around him, and that its his fault, and that its shattering the image of the brilliant self made business genius that he had of himself in his head.
Eylrid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Be like wrecking your Ferrari
It was an uninsured McLaren F1, but yeah he’s done that too
SCB@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Imagine watching Kanye West destroy his public image and then in the same year thinking “Nothing bad will happen if I make antisemitic comments on the media platform I own.”
FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So Mastodon looks to be the big after Twitter. When is the funeral for Twitter?
Syntha@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Does it? Looks to me like people are willing to use any service but mastodon as a Twitter replacement.
nadram@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Unfortunately I think Threads is going to be the big winner here… People love the brands; Meta attracts more than Mastodon…
Throwaway4669332255@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I hope Mastodon succeeds but I don’t see it taking off like twitter did.
MxM111@kbin.social 11 months ago
At this point I do not think that he is sane. Such people should not be commanding such great resources as he does, and so many people should not be dependent on his decisions. This is just immoral at this point.
badbytes@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And you said tax cuts for the rich would work out.
NutWrench@lemmy.world 11 months ago
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
I think he should try going to fuck himself too.
cRazi_man@lemm.ee 11 months ago
That’s what the advertisers midst be thinking: “why would we fuck ourselves when we could fuck you”
luthis@lemmy.nz 11 months ago
I love it when corporations get told to go fuck themselves, I just wish it was by someone I actually respected.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It just doesn’t feel the same when it’s the richest man in the world that’s saying it.
Syrc@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Wait, did he really overtake Arnault again? I see contradicting sources.
Dizzirron@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Wealth is in the mind not the pocket.
likelyaduck@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Someone needs a nap. Tantrum much?
DeathWearsANecktie@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Keep digging that hole for yourself, arsehole
UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
He’s just visited kibutz settlements, how can he be anti-jews? reuters.com/…/elon-musk-begins-wartime-visit-isra… Lmao, why he’s so transparent.
DreBeast@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I wish I could say this is Twitter’s death kneel but we all know they’ll be back together soon enough. Like an abusive relationship
MataVatnik@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Abusive? More like a drug dealer and a junkie.
aprnu@feddit.ch 11 months ago
[deleted]Honytawk@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Yeah, I doubt all those investors that paid he/him love to lose their money.
feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 11 months ago
that paid he
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 11 months ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Elon Musk addressed an antisemitism controversy in characteristically unwise fashion during a public interview today, telling businesses to “go fuck yourself” and to stop advertising on the social network formerly named Twitter.
Musk spoke on stage at The New York Times’ DealBook Summit in an interview conducted by journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin.
“I should in retrospect not have replied to that one person and should have written in greater length what I meant,” Musk reportedly said.
"But those clarifications were ignored by the media and essentially I handed a loaded gun to those who hate me and arguably to those who are antisemitic.
On November 15, Musk replied, “You have said the actual truth” to an X post that said Jewish communities are “pushing hatred against whites.”
A White House spokesperson condemned Musk’s post as “abhorrent promotion of antisemitic and racist hate.”
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Ecksell@lemmy.one 11 months ago
I wonder if the news on X (and other media) regarding Kissinger will drown this out?
Haphazard9479@lemm.ee 11 months ago
He should release the code and increase security and privacy within the app if he doesnt have advertisers. We dont want ads anyway.
badbytes@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Mental illness is a thing
danielfgom@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Well he admitted to making a mistake with his previous comment. He’s also since then been to Israel and supports their righteous cause.
Let’s see what happens. I’m not his biggest fan but I respect that at least there is free speech on his platform, unlike Mastodon, Facebook etc
And even if twitter dies, so what? Elon is loaded. To him it’s like a toy broke, but he has many more in the cupboard.
Plavatos@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
danielfgom@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yes. I’ve never had a post removed on twitter in all the many years I’ve used it. I make a few posts on Mastodon and they take them down
Plus on twitter I see all sorts of differing opinions and no one is silencing them. Each one has a voice
assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 11 months ago
at least there is free speech on his platform
As long as you don’t insult him or say “cis” or pull advertising
danielfgom@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Those allegations are overblown.
Bob Iger still has an account even if he doesn’t advertise. He’s not being censored. He’s just being told “don’t think you can bully me”. Very reasonable in my opinion
Rusky_900@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Twitter was useful to a lot of people. More useful than Musk.
danielfgom@lemmy.world 11 months ago
To be honest, 99% of the planet still use Twitter. I also use Mastodon but it’s a drop in the ocean.
The only people who left twitter are a handful of offended “liberals”. Everyone else stayed.
Marsey_Enjoyer@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Based papa musk telling globohomo advertisers to fuck off
ebits21@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Earth’s response, “yeah man, it was DEFINITELY your fault!!”