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X Races to Contain Damage After Elon Musk Endorses Antisemitic Post (www.nytimes.com)
submitted 2 years ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/technology@lemmy.world
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IBM, a major advertiser on X, has pulled its spending from the social media platform, whose employees are grappling with what to tell its other advertisers, according to internal messages.

To be clear: Musk endorsed a tweet which used a false antisemitic conspiracy theory to tell people why "Hitler was right"

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[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I mean, they probably don't want to get sued by the world's richest man-baby for libel for declaring it outright.

Even if it's true, they'll have to go through the court case. It'd be pretty hilarious IMO, though. He'd have to prove he's not a Nazi-sympathising piece of shit, which is impossible.