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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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[–] EatYouWell@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

People are often wrong.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why do you hate democracy? The people have spoken!

[–] EatYouWell@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean, women and non-whites vote republican, so I don't put a ton of stock into what the numbers say. I'm sure Florida or Texas could pass a vote re-establishing slavery, but that doesn't mean the people are right.

Just because an article involves a tech company doesn't mean it's about technology. Twitter losing ad revenue because it's owner is a nazi is not about technology; it's about marketing, finance, and politics.

It would be nice if this community didn't devolve into a Musk news feed like it did on Reddit.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Just because an article is about a tech company doesn't mean it's about technology. Correct.

This community is called "technology". Also correct.

But people can post what they want and upvote what they want. So if this is what they want, then they aren't wrong. Look at "trees". Not a single damn tree in the whole place.

I really do recommend starting a community called techWithoutMusk and moderating it how you like. I'm sure a bunch of people would join. Or become a mod here, and change what people can vote on.