Elon Musk pushed back on advertisers boycotting X over antisemitism and other hate speech on the platform formerly known as Twitter during the 2023 DealBook Summit in New York on Wednesday.

What he’s saying: “If somebody’s gonna try to blackmail me with advertising? Blackmail me with money? Go f**k yourself.” Musk said. “Don’t advertise.”

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    1 year ago

    That’s… kinda pathetic, actually. He’s acting like a literal child. “I didn’t want the cookie anyways!”

    I would laugh at the absurdity if he wasn’t in charge of a major communications network.

    It’s kind of inspiring, really. A guy with the mental age of myself when I was a teenage edge-overlord can “effectively” run a massive social media website. I really can do anything! I mean, I could if I had an emeralds mine from my papa, but still!

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      1 year ago

      Oh, but he does want it. At the same time he’s whining about how they’ll “kill X” and threatening to document it and tell the world what a victim he is.