Advertisiers Are Running from X and Elon Musk’s AntiSemitism – ryan

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Elon Musk’s Endorsement of an Antisemitic Conspiracy Theory This Week – The Latest in a Very Link of Objectionable Behavior from the Volatile de facto x Ceo – has been (Another) Disaster for the Company, which has Already Lost $ 25 Billion. IBM PULLED ITS Advertising from x on Thursday, followed by the Billion-Dollar Entertainment Company LionSgate. But the Big Blow Came Friday AFTHNOON, WEND APPLE, The Larger Company in the World by Market Cap and A Huge deal in the ad World, Reportedly Followed suit. THEN DISNEY ALSO paused its x spendingnor did Warner Discovery Brothersand Global Paramountand Comcast/nbcuniversaland Sony. Its not clear if the economic fallen will Stop there.

The White House Coondemned Musk for His Comment. Spokesman Andrew Bates said On Friday that it was “unaccepable to repeat the hydeous lie bend the most fatal act of antisemitism in American History at any time.”

On wednesday, musk, who has increasingly embraced far-right ideas, responded to a tweet in which an x ​​use the antisemitic conspiracy that Jews are encuraction Migration from DEVELOPING COUNTRIES TO THE US AND EUROPE IN ORDER TO LIMIN “Jewish communties (as) have flush the exact kind of dialectical hatred against Whites that they CLAIM TO WANT TO STOP USING AGAINST. I’m deeply disinterestted in giving the tiniest shit now about western jewish population coming to the disturbing realization that thos of minorities that suport flowing their don’t exactly say too much. ” The Concept, Known As The Great Replacent Theory, Was cied by the shooter who killed 11 People at the Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018.

In Response, Musk Said That The User Was Speaking “The Actual Truth.”

Musk Weiighed in with another tweet On friday evening, suggesting x would target the use of specific phrases which said were eupehemisms that “Necessarily imply genocide.”

He late Tweeted that “Many of the Larger Advertisers Are the Greatest Oppressors of Your Right to Free Speech” and Vowed to File A “Thermonuclear Lawsuit“Against Media Matters, Which on Thursday Prominently highlighted Both musk’s antisemitic comments as well as its research showing how ads from advertisiers had been appears alongside pro-nazi posts on X. Acciting to Disinformation Specialists.) On Sunday, he did the bare minimum to fix the situation, tweeting that “bogus media stories” present Him as anti -Semitic and that “Nothing Could Be Further from the Truth.

CEO Linda YacCarino has been trying, so far in vain, to control the damage – which is already a family bind for her. In an ineffectual Attempt at Cleanup on Thursday, She wrote that x has been “Extremely Clear About Our Efforts to Combat Anti -Semitism and Discruption.” She Might Want To Tell Her Boss, or Just Look for a New Job. Multiple reports states that ad executives are reaching out to her urging her to quit the company before her reputation is damaged by mus offensive comments. “Think the Advertising Community Is Now Working to Save the Reputation of a Beloved Member of Our Industry Who Does Share Elon Musk’s Views and Certainly Did Not Know and Accept the Role of Ceo,” Form of America ExecCe Paskalis Paskalis Toold Axios. “IF she did, she would have not have acceptted,”

This post has been updated with new Reporting.