The Muskbrat tells advertisers to "Go fuck yourselves"

[thewayne]

He literally said this, on camera, in front of a live audience, in an interview at the New York Times DealBook Summit.

The event in question: ''On November 15, Musk replied, "You have said the actual truth" to an X post that said Jewish communities are "pushing hatred against whites."

Many major advertisers immediately suspended advertising on the platform or flat-out cancelled contracts due to this on-going shit by the head shit-gibbon.

In the Ars article, he goes on to say "he regretted making the post that kicked off the advertiser boycott. "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. And for that I'm quite sorry, that was not my intention."

Musk also called it "one of the most foolish—if not the most foolish—thing I've done on the platform."

Well, yeah. We know you're an idiot. You're embracing Nazis, Pizzagate apparently, and you're not doing much to deny or shut down such trolls. And you're wondering why advertisers are fleeing your site?

I appreciate what he's done with SpaceX, it has truly revolutionized space flight, though the concept of colonizing Mars is really idiotic. The only thing that impresses me about Tesla is the nation-wide charging network, the build quality of their cars has massively plummeted. And the fact that he kicked out the guys who invented the car from the corporation just plain sucks. But that's the kind of asshole that he is. He thinks because he was born with a gold spoon in his mouth that he's brilliant. The problem is, he's not as smart as he thinks he is and doesn't appreciate how much privilege his money has brought him, especially that his starting money came from daddy's opal mine in South Africa.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/elon-musk-on-x-antisemitism-controversy-dont-advertise-go-f-yourself/

Comments

[silveradept]

I wouldn't be surprised if the end game is that he's regularly selling the more important thing: data. Because there's a lot of that available and he can let that go anywhere he wants to whomever wants to pay for it. Eventually, the only users he will have are the people who love Twitter as a much less obviously fascist Truth Social, but that's clearly on a long spiral down.

[thewayne]

The interesting thing is that with "Truth" Social also being in somewhat dire financial straits, we could see both sites vanishing from the social media landscape!

[silveradept]

Certainly possible, and then they'll likely be Bluesky's problem, and then we'll have started the cycle completely over again.

[thewayne]

Bluesky and Threads.  Mastedon, while viable, still seems somewhat nascent and niche.

[silveradept]

Mastodon, much like Dreamwidth, is unlikely to ever hit it Big, but it will do perfectly fine siphoning off some people from the other places every time they blow up. And there will be plenty of things blowing up.