Elon Musk goes thermonuclear as X bleeds advertisers post antisemitic conspiracy theo

Guno צְבִי

Guno צְבִי

We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
A number of blue chip companies are pulling ads from Elon Musk's X (formerly Twitter) due to what CNN Business is referring to as his "increasingly vocal endorsement of extremist beliefs."

Earlier this week, Media Matters for America reported that Musk declared on X that a paid X Premium user's peddling of an antisemitic conspiracy theory attacking Jewish people was the "actual truth," which kicked-off the platform's advertising bleed.


Witnessing reports of Disney, Paramount, NBCUniversal, Comcast, Lionsgate, Warner Bros. Discovery and Apple cutting ties with X, Musk is going into damage control mode, issuing a statement saying, “The split second court opens on Monday, X Corp will be filing a thermonuclear lawsuit against Media Matters and ALL those who colluded in this fraudulent attack on our company."


In response to Musk's threat to sue, Media Matters President Angelo Carusone issued the following statement on Saturday: “Far from the free speech advocate he claims to be, Musk is a bully who threatens meritless lawsuits in an attempt to silence reporting that he even confirmed is accurate. Musk admitted the ads at issue ran alongside the pro-Nazi content we identified. If he does sue us, we will win."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/tech...h?cvid=9d917e1431f84fe689daf508069150c1&ei=25
 
Musk keeps talking about X becoming an everything app. I question whether anyone wants to get a mortgage through Twitter, but more importantly, I know that without a huge number of programmers, he will not be able to do it. He has very few programmers left.

On top of that, he does not have enough other staff members to figure out when advertisements are going to very bad posts. No one wants to advertise on such a platform.

Musk has lost a huge amount of money on Twitter, and is bound to lose a lot more.
 
Walt said:
Musk keeps talking about X becoming an everything app. I question whether anyone wants to get a mortgage through Twitter, but more importantly, I know that without a huge number of programmers, he will not be able to do it. He has very few programmers left.

On top of that, he does not have enough other staff members to figure out when advertisements are going to very bad posts. No one wants to advertise on such a platform.

Musk has lost a huge amount of money on Twitter, and is bound to lose a lot more.
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I seem to recall you eulogising about Threads a while back, yet it's now dead in the water, Salty!!
 
serendipity said:
I seem to recall you eulogising about Threads a while back, yet it's now dead in the water, Salty!!
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You recall incorrectly. I really do not see how Twitter's business model could have ever worked, but Musk has really made it work worse.

An open source, open standard version might work. It would be like email, no one owns email. That being said, it would not be a business model as such.
 
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