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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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[–] Ilgaz@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

They posted ads to Twitter so you as a tax payer, bank client, decision maker know what IBM is and why your organization probably have chosen it. They started to make mainframes pretty looking. Do you really think a system guarded by armed security and even bullet proof windows which requires high end ear protective equipment and emergency oxygen support welcomes needless people around it? The milisecond IBM ad showed next to Nazi flag, they have gone for good.