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he said. “We’ll be gone, and it’ll be gone because of an advertiser boycott.”... eeer, no.

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[–] rubythulhu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 years ago

Cluster-B summed up perfectly. His platform will die because of “an advertiser boycott”, and not because he’s driving it into the ground while throwing middle fingers with both hands and ranting about how everyone else can go fuck themselves as the world burns around him.

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago

And little of value was lost.

[–] MisterMoo@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

Nice bomber jacket and full head of natural hair, ya fuckin idiot.

[–] autotldr 7 points 2 years ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Elon Musk took the stage at the DealBook conference on Wednesday evening with nervous laughter and a cascade of jokes about himself and his companies.

But the interview quickly turned to the more serious subject of Musk’s recent antisemitic posts on X and whether his company can survive the advertiser boycott.

Musk’s message to advertisers came after what had briefly appeared to be an attempt to salvage the damage he caused after he called an antisemitic post the “actual truth” two weeks ago.

More than 100 brands have since halted their ads, and the company is at risk of losing $75 million by the end of the year, according to The New York Times.

His attempted clarification only seemed to further the antisemitic conspiracy theory he promoted in the first place, broadly blaming “people in the Jewish community” for their support of unnamed activist groups.

But the questions around Musk’s own actions, and the resulting advertiser exodus — the things that could materially impact X — seemed to garner the most nonchalant answers.


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[–] clearleaf@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

I've been saying this for years and nobody made a news article about me

[–] Moc@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
[–] elbucho@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

"X" isn't publicly traded. When he bought it, he took it private, so you can't short it. The ticker symbol X is for the United States Steel Corporation. You could definitely short that, though; it's entirely possible that it'll tank just the same because people confuse it with Xitter. Like when that Chinese company that had the ticker symbol ZOOM shot to the moon at the start of the pandemic because people thought it was the video conferencing app (whose symbol was ZM).

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[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Very mature of Elon.

[–] Jagermo@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago
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