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X Races to Contain Damage After Elon Musk Endorses Antisemitic Post (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 1 year 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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[–] magnetosphere@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh, I’m sure that long ago they learned the futility of even attempting any kind of “damage control”. An incident that would be a once-a-decade PR nightmare for any other company is just Tuesday when you’re dealing with this asshole.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah. He spent the past year dog whistling these attitudes. It's been clear to people who are attuned who he is.