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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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[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Phew, this could really tarnish his reputation.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (7 children)

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

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[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Linda Yaccarino accepting that position... talk about a poisoned chalice.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm sure she's getting paid enough to support herself and whatever kid(s) might result from Musk after 𝕏itter is done.

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[–] pascal@lemm.ee 17 points 2 years ago (18 children)

That's bold coming from the company (IBM) that helped the Nazis organize a well structured genocide.

reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

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[–] ExLisper@linux.community 17 points 2 years ago (23 children)

Why TF is IBM advertising on X? They sell mainframes. Who is scrolling through X and thinks 'shit, I could really use a mainframe'?

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (7 children)

IBM has almost left the sales sector completely. They're basically consultants to huge companies now. They found there was a lot more money in running financial companies datacenters.

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[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Damn I was expecting some kind of heated hot-take laden debate about the recent events with Israel, which would have been bad enough for him to throw his two cents into, but dude completely exceeded my expectations in the worst way by straight up praising Hitler out of the blue while givng the nod to white supremacy.

So now that he's actually showed his hand we can start unironically calling Elon a Nazi now right? I remember people calling him that just to insult him in the past and his personal cult brigade coming to his defense. Let's see them try and do that now.

Also mirroring the screenshot on Lemmy.ml in case Imgur deletes it:

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 years ago (13 children)
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[–] arquebus_x@kbin.social 13 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Jesus Christ that NYT article has so many weasel words in it. "Seen as", "appear to be," blah blah blah. I hate the NYT.

[–] 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.

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