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Elon Musk pushed back on advertisers boycotting X over antisemitism and other hate speech on the platform formerly known as Twitter during the 2023 DealBook Summit in New York on Wednesday.

What he’s saying: “If somebody’s gonna try to blackmail me with advertising? Blackmail me with money? Go f**k yourself.” Musk said. “Don’t advertise.”

    • interceder270@lemmy.world
      1·
      11 months ago

      He can always switch to less-savory advertisers.

      This isn’t about keeping the lights on (paying the bills), it’s about maximizing profit. As always.

      True, he cannot make as much profit with Oni-hole ads than Coca-cola ads, but it won’t matter as far as keeping twitter operational is concerned.

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        Twitter wasn’t profitable before he bought it. Loosing ad revenue makes it even less profitable; he’s actively losing money and, to be perfectly blunt, hurts him far more than any insult I could conceive.