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

reminds me of a great song

[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'd never heard this before.

And then halfway through right on the lyric "kill them all and let God sort them out," YouTube cut to an ad for a handgun. The irony...

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[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

He's got the reverse Midas touch.

[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (13 children)

What damage? Twitter has been a right-wing platform for a long time now. Any remaining users had already (knowingly or not) aligned themselves with right-wing fascist subhumans.

So, if any advertisers or users are upset, fuck 'em. They can own it. They supported a right-wing platform and should reap the labels that come with that.

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[–] ahriboy@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago (11 children)

More advertisers will withdraw from X later.

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