The owner of micro-blogging platform X (formerly Twitter), Elon Musk, has said that advertisers who left the platform after his endorsement of anti-Semitic comments can go away.
The billionaire made this statement during an interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin at the New York Times DealBook Summit.
Using hand gestures, he said: “If someone can blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money, go f*k yourself but go f*k yourself. Is that clear? I hope it is.”
This comes after Elon Musk was accused of promoting anti-Semitism comments after replying to a post after which some advertisers, including Sony, Warner Bros, Lionsgate, etc., pulled their spending from the platform. The post, which was in response to another video post showing a man talking to his son about his online activity of pushing hatred while hiding behind his screen, reads: “Okay, Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.
“I’m deeply disinterested in giving the tiniest shit now about western Jewish populations coming to the disturbing realization that those hordes of minorities that support flooding their country don’t exactly like them too much. You want truth said to your face, there it is.”
Companies that have pulled from advertising on X include:
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