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Your move , Linda . Elon Musk articulate “ go get laid yourself ” to advertisers who recently paused spending on X after heendorsedanantisemiticconspiracy possibility on the platform .
“ You do n’t require them to push ? ” Sorkin say .
“ If somebody ’s lead to prove to blackjack me with publicizing , pressure me with money ? Go screw yourself , ” Musk said . “ Go . Fuck . Yourself . Is that vindicated ? ”
He then wave to the audience and said , “ Hey , Bob , ” referring to Disney CEO Bob Iger , who was also at the event .
Needless to say , it ’s not an encouraging message for advertisers who are deciding whether or not to continue giving the platform their ad dollar . And it seems contrary to the strategy of bringing in an advertising industry top banana like Linda Yaccarino as chief operating officer .
“ What this advertising boycott is going to do is kill the company , ” Musk uphold . “ And the whole world will know that those adman killed the society , and we will document it in great point . ”
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Throughout his term of office as XTC ’s owner , Musk has sued or threaten to litigate nonprofit organizations like Media Matters , theCenter for Countering Digital Hateand theAnti - Defamation League , allege that their reputation are responsible for the increasingly thin relationship between X and advertisers . company that have pause or pulled publicizing on X in the last few week include Apple , Comcast / NBCUniversal , Disney , Warner Bros. Discovery , IBM , Paramount Global , Lionsgate and the European Commission .
In the post that Musk described as “ the actual trueness , ” an X user incriminate Judaic communities of open “ dialectical hatred against whites . ”
Musk did take on that his “ actual truth ” gossip was “ gooselike . ” He even apologized and said he is good-for-naught onstage . But Musk is clearly not repentant about spread out violence - prone confederacy theory . Just yesterday , he post a meme endorsing Pizzagate , adebunkedconspiracytheory that accused high - order Democrats of child sex - trafficking and inspired real - world ferocity when one Pizzagate adherent stormed a Washington , D.C. pizzeria with an AR-15 . Musk has since blue-pencil the post .
Per enquiry from the Center for Countering Digital Hate , X hasfailed to moderatehate lecture on its program that promotes anti-semitic conspiracies , praise Hitler and dehumanizes Muslims and Palestinians . Media Matters for America , a left - leaning medium watchdog , also published a recent reportshowing how advertizement from company like Apple , IBM , Bravo , Oracle and Xfinity have appear next to posts that praise Nazi ideology . In a instruction , X said that the report “ totally fake the material substance abuser experience on X , in another attempt to undermine freedom of delivery and mislead advertisers . ” XTC has since lodge suit against the medium watchdog .
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