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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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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (4 children)

IBM gone, Apple gone, Disney gone. As I don't use Twix: Who is still spending marketing money on Elon's shitberg?

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 8 points 2 years ago

Musk's ideal advertiser is one which sells swastika-engraved AR-15s to mass shooters.

[–] iquanyin@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

a bunch of scammy site and scammy “girls”

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Twix

Hey, no need to sully the name of a perfectly good candy bar with that "social media" nazi echochamber.

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago

Nestlé has done worse than endorsing white supremacy, so I don't think they have.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They aren't gone. It's a "pause." They'll be back when people forget about Musk being a racist.

[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

Then the Internet should make them not forget.