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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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[–] kool_newt@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

With that logic, everyone that did any business with Germany in the 1930s “helped the Holocaust”.

Exactly, they did. A corporation not being aware of what was happening, as Jews are leaving the country to save their lives? right...

The same can be said about corporations currently working Israel, the U.S, China, Russia, etc. These corporations are and were a significant part of the problem.

[–] FaeDrifter@midwest.social 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pre-internet fog of war was on a whole different level; it's not like Anne Frank was positing tiktoks from inside Germany explaining what was happening.

Modern day corporations have no such excuse.

[–] kool_newt@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Maybe, though I'd imagine a company like IBM would be seeing it's Jewish employees fleeing the country or attempting to and have some idea of why.