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

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    11 months 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.

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      11 months 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

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      11 months ago

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

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      11 months 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.