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Elon Musk, the owner of X, criticized advertisers with expletives on Wednesday at The New York Times’s DealBook Summit.

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[-] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 57 points 1 year ago

He's trying to find a scapegoat to blame for destroying the company, and he seems to think he's found it in the advertisers that are withdrawing their money.

[-] root_beer@midwest.social 22 points 1 year ago

Benny “Dry Humping Only” Shapiro is calling it an attempt to silence Musk and an attack on free speech

These guys never showed up for fifth grade civics

[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I think they have, they just know their base is easy to manipulate.

[-] Additional_Prune@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You can always count on Benny to come up with some hot take that's wrong, stupid, or not even wrong.

[-] drmeanfeel@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Hard to deny this as he explicitly said it in this same interview, but the fan boys will

[-] rhythmicotter@midwest.social 8 points 1 year ago

Don't forget his "lawsuit" against Media Matters.

[-] Sway_Chameleon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I heard David Samson (former president of the Miami Marlins) suggest that he wants the advertisers to all bail so that he can entice his sycophants to boycott the companies who pulled their ad revenue.

He suggested that if you have the type of f-you money to waste that Musk does, then it's simply an ego move. He's not going to succeed with XTwitter so he might as well let it burn, and scorch as many people as he can in the hopes of getting petty revenge on those who crossed him.

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