What posts on this thread are shilling for large corporations?
This is a problem made by Musk. He admits that it was a big mistake to endorse the anti-semetic tweet, but is outraged that companies don't want to pay him money to have their ads associated with tweets like that and Musk's not infrequent endorsement of conspiracy crap.
Corporations don't care what their ads appear "next to." Instagram and tiktok are full of antisemitic content and you don't see any advertisers flee. Instagram is reported to have child porn. I don't recall an advertiser boycott. NBC platforms antisemites all day on TV, no boycott.
Corporations only cave to the threat of bad press from places like the NYT, and the NYT/nepotist Sulzbergers don't like Elon because he isn't on board the global lib agenda. If you believe the woe is me, we can't advertise on twitter because of "antisemitism" you're a shill
Well, if you can make up meanings and contexts, I guess you can make all the allegations you want.
I didn't say I believed any narrative. I said Trump made this mess and provided a clear, public reason for the companies to withdraw advertising dollars. How committed those companies are to that cause isn't something I know. I don't use tik toc or Instagram and I'm unfamiliar with the NBC antisemites you reference.
But even if someone is siding with big corporations it is disingenuous to suggest that is wrong when the tilt in question is a big corporation against one of the world's richest people. There is no 'poor little guy' in this battle.
Does anybody have the list of companies which are blackmailing X?
Not a complete list, but from the NY Times:
"About 200 big advertisers, including Disney, Apple and IBM, stopped spending on X after Mr. Musk agreed with a post that accused Jewish communities of pushing “hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.” If the freeze continues, it could end up costing the company up to $75 million this quarter, according to internal documents seen by The New York Times."
$75 million does not seem like much for a company the size of X.
Empty words when he endorsed anti-semetic tweets leans into conspiracy theories like Pizzagate and QAnon. That stuff hurts people.
In this video hes wearing a tag with the names of Jewish hostages whiched he vowed to wear until they are returned safe.
Who is "hurt" by a pizzagate comic in 2023 besides actual pedos?
A name tag? That's performance art and the tactic of looking good rather than doing good, which he claims to despise.
Reviving Pizzagate hurts the people suspected of being pedos but aren't. And the QAnon stuff feeds into that because the QAnon people think that there is some huge pedo population is politics and finance. All it takes for real physical damage is some wacko with a gun following a Q rabbit hole and shooting an innocent person. Almost happened in the subject Pizza parlor.
$75 million does not seem like much for a company the size of X.
I hear you. But the news coverage is saying that this will have significant impacts on the company nonetheless.
I'm also seeing reports that this latest hit is on top of enormous loss or advertising revenue in the previous months to the level or 50% or 60%. So, perhaps its compounding. Also noted is a "heavy debt load" (Musk's words) and a drop in web traffic.
$75 million does not seem like much for a company the size of X.
If X were making money, that probably is true. But I think it is still losing money (not sure).
I don't know either.
I was just surprised by the amount quoted after listening to Musk talk about them putting X out of business. I was expecting to see 50% of their revenues or something along those lines. Not 7%.
Exactly how "huge" is this pedo population among the elites of which you speak? And do you have any credible sources to back up exactly how huge this problem is? ("some entertainer said so" is not a credible source)
For the record, it is obvious that pedophilia is a terrible thing. I am just not convinced that the "elites" are worse than the general population. Nor am I convinced that you have any actual knowledge regarding this. Feel free to prove me wrong.
Also, "You'd have to have your head up your butt to not know this" is not a convincing argument. Let's see what actual substance you have.
But just what is the factual basis for the repeated allegation that there are a lot of pedos among our elites? Every now and then there is a story involving an elite, but there are many stories about teachers, truck drives and rural rednecks as well.
If X were making money, that probably is true. But I think it is still losing money (not sure).
I don't know either.
I was just surprised by the amount quoted after listening to Musk talk about them putting X out of business. I was expecting to see 50% of their revenues or something along those lines. Not 7%.
For some perspective, it seems that in 2021, 89% of Twitter's $4.5 bil. of income came from advertising services.
Also, note that Musk himself said that it has a heavy debt load.
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I support free speech not woke silencing. Musk is not antisemitic, but the media has put a target on him because they are filled with Marxist, leftist, and antiemetic persons who hate America, hate freedom, and hate people that go against the Democratic Party controlled narratives to stay in power.
Musk doesn’t actually believe what you nutjobs believe. But he knows you nutjobs aes out there. Just like Trump and Peterson. They manipulate you because, frankly, you are morons.
He clearly has no idea how to run a media company.
He might be great running engineering type companies. That is a different skill set.
Most of the people I liked following on X or Twitter have left the platform. They are what brought value to the platform.
I don’t know if he does not know or does not want. It’s obviously a problem when substantially all your companies revenue stems from advertising.
Originally, I thought that the woke agenda came from ownership of the media companies.
No
It comes from the fact that 85% of the advertisers’ revenues come from women. Until that changes (not soon)…
That’s why the CNBC guy could not believe his ears. Did you find a new revenue stream? Because as CNBC, we don’t have a choice. Why do YOU have a choice? What makes you immune? Why/how do you get that freedom of expression? We (CNBC) don’t have it. Of course we wish we had it. That’s not how the game works.
I support free speech not woke silencing. Musk is not antisemitic, but the media has put a target on him because they are filled with Marxist, leftist, and antiemetic persons who hate America, hate freedom, and hate people that go against the Democratic Party controlled narratives to stay in power.
"Woke silencing"? Does Musk have some absolute right to any company's advertising dollars? The obvious answer it 'no'. The advertisers place ads based on eyeballs that might be interested in their product and try to avoid platforms that can have give them a negative connotation.
Does pulling the ads 'silence' Musk? Of course not. He can still tweet what he wants to tweet. And if X dies or he sells it, he still has the ability as one of the world's richest people to get his opinions covered.
The Right: to hell with this league! We’re going to boycott and burn our season tickets and gear and never give them a dime again!
—Elon Musk endorses an antisemitic conspiracy theory post and advertisers pull their money because they don’t wNt to associated with such views—
The Right: that’s outrageous! That’s blackmail!
And just to jump ahead of the obtuseness here, I disagreed with the attempts to boycott the NFL, but I fully supported the rights of all those people to destroy their own property and refuse to support the NFL in anyway. It’s their property, let them do with it what they wish.
So what’s the difference here, besides Elon being their guy? If you’re the head of a company and you do some crap that makes me not like you, I have every right to stop giving you my money.
And to the person earlier who mentioned hate messaging on Instagram, to whatever extent they’re making efforts to clamp down on that (I don’t have that data) Mark Zuckerberg isn’t supporting those hateful posts, is he? He’s too busy trying to get his ass handed to him in the octagon.
Musk used to be the darling of the Mainstream Media. Once he started to step out of line on many of their narratives he became a target. By revealing the Twitter files showing the Soviet styled methods of using Twitter as a government aided propaganda tool to attack opponents he became the media’s enemy.
Musk used to be the darling of the Mainstream Media. Once he started to step out of line on many of their narratives he became a target. By revealing the Twitter files showing the Soviet styled methods of using Twitter as a government aided propaganda tool to attack opponents he became the media’s enemy.
You are the stupidest person to have ever lived. Christ.