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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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[–] arquebus_x@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (3 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 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What does rest of the tweet say and why is it left out?

[–] Heresy_generator@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't have the original but I remember it pivots to anti-Muslim-immigration propaganda. Pretty sure it even referred to them as "hordes" because, of course, poor refugees trying to find a better life are analogous to an invading Mongol army in neo-Nazi propaganda.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

More of the antisemitic conspiracy theory. You can find it easily enough, and amplification isn't a good idea

[–] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The tweet seems to have been deleted and none of the articles quote the full tweet. Full context is kind of important considering that's what the news is about, isn't it?

[–] Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Has there ever been a NYT that wasn't full of weasel worda