Linda Yaccarino, the CEO of X, attempted to do damage control as Paramount and Warner Bros among others also pulled ads
Apple will pause all its advertising on X, formerly Twitter, two days after owner Elon Musk tweeted his enthusiastic agreement with an antisemitic post.
A cascade of other major technology and media companies, from IBM to Disney, made similar announcements on Friday.
Apple’s ads had run beside tweets praising Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, according to a report released earlier in the week. Film studio Lionsgate said it would also pause ads on X, as did Warner Bros, Paramount, Sony Pictures, and Comcast/NBCUniversal, according to media reports. IBM made a similar move the night prior. The New York Times reported Disney would be pausing spending on the social media platform as well.
The billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX wrote Wednesday that a tweet accusing Jews of hating white people was “the actual truth”. The White House condemned Musk’s statements Friday morning, lambasting them as “abhorrent”. A coalition of more than 150 rabbis had called for Apple, Disney, Amazon, Oracle and others to stop advertising on the social network in response to Musk’s tweets.
It's ridiculous that it took Elon to be totally open about his racism for them to do this. And as the article says, it's a pause. They'll start advertising there again when the furor dies down. Then they'll do another pause the next time he says something atrocious and the cycle will repeat.
The space development tracking community and Ukraine war OSINT people basically only use Twitter. I am interested in both topics so I use Twitter, but specifically only for those topics.
I keep my account active only so that some Nazi does gobble up my screen name.
I don’t really check it, but I’ll go and quickly make a little post every couple months to keep it “active” in case they start deleting “old” accounts.
Apple aren’t serious about snubbing Musk and Twitter until they Suspend the App from the App Store.
I’m sure their marketing, legal and AppStore teams can find some way that it has violated App Store rules that isn’t going to cause a terrible precedent.
"Pause"? This is temporary. Big companies like these are fine with supporting right-wing shitbags, even when the right is calling for extermination of innocent people. They just don't want to be labelled antisimetic if it could affect sales. They'll be back on Twitter in a couple months, when their names aren't in the news cycle anymore.
IBM, also one of X’s biggest advertisers, announced it would stop advertising on X Thursday. The company made the decision in response to a report by liberal watchdog Media Matters that found both IBM and Apple’s ads running alongside hate speech. Musk called Media Matters an “evil organization” in response.
Whoever's job it is to keep a dart gun trained on him, you might want to make sure it's loaded. Dude's crackin'.
Elon Musk tweeted his enthusiastic agreement with an antisemitic post.
So, what was the stupid post anyway ? (Hope it was not a simple pro Palestine post). I know the guy is crazy but if we accuse him of something let's say what exactly is the accusation.
Jewish Communities have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.
I will not comment about the rest (which is for me somewhat hard to understand). But I will make a simple (or maybe simplistic) comment about the part I have transcribed above.
I think this sentence doesn't say "hate Jews". I think it says : "it is bad that Jews push hate speech against whites (meaning non Jews)." To be simplistic this means "hate is bad".
I am not sure about the use of the word "dialectical" in that sentence.