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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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[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.ml 210 points 1 year ago (10 children)

You support his ideology if you remain on that platform.

[–] vivadanang@lemm.ee 100 points 1 year ago

if you drink at the nazi bar, you might as well join their fuckwit club because you're normalizing their behavior and sponsoring their lifestyle.

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[–] thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world 146 points 1 year ago (1 children)

... and a bunch of people continue to rub elbows with Nazis instead of deleting their accounts and moving to Mastodon. I wonder what the breaking point will be?

[–] chaogomu@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'll admit I've not deleted my Twitter account.

Mostly because I've not logged in since 2013? I think I had a single tweet, and that was a reply to some event that I was personally involved in.

Compare that to Mastodon, and I actually have followed a few people and even got into a debate about different voting systems that drew in a third party who turned it into an argument.

So mostly a wash.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, to delete the account, you have to log in, and fuck that noise

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[–] Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works 127 points 1 year ago (10 children)

If you are still on Twitter, you are making a statement whether you like it or not.

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[–] Endorkend@kbin.social 99 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When IBM, the guys that developed the computer system to schedule and track the holocaust itself, go "OY, cool your rhetoric Elon", you know you're well off the deep end.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Don't worry, he still has their costume designer.

https://twitter.com/HUGOBOSS

[–] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could you take a screenshot when you post this stuff? I really don't want to touch that pile of shit in any way.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure a screen shot tells you anything that the url itself doesn't. No need to click on anything.

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[–] Octavio@lemmy.world 84 points 1 year ago (17 children)

I don’t think there will be much damage. It’s not as though this were some huge surprise. The only people left on X agree with him or don’t care enough to mildly adjust their habits. I saw that IBM “paused” their ads, but I’d bet a nickel they will resume them once this blows over. They know what Xitter is. All the corporations know and don’t care. This very article on the NYT website has a button to share it on Twitter.

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Xitter is such an appropriate name

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[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 78 points 1 year ago (7 children)

EV competition can't come fast enough. I love my Model S, but when the lease is up I am not buying another Tesla unless the board removes him, like, completely removes him. No stock, no continued royalties or pay out, I want him gone.

What a piece of shit waste of a human.

[–] acpx@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The same board (largely) that had to settle a suit because they overpaid themselves by close to a billion? With his brother? They’re not gonna do shit, unfortunately

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/musk-tesla-board-to-return-735m-after-being-sued-for-overpaying-themselves/

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[–] hex_m_hell@slrpnk.net 70 points 1 year ago

IBM: Oh shit! Not making that mistake again.

[–] mawkishdave@lemmy.world 65 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I would say eat the rich but I would hate for someone to get that sick.

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[–] EatYouWell@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Just because the article is about a tech company owner doesn't mean it's related to technology.

Musk being a shitty person isn't technology related.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 28 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Social media company losing a lot of money as a result is.

[–] EatYouWell@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

No, it really isn't. A social media company's income is business or financial related, not technology.

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)

IBM’s marketing team must be so glad to have gotten the opportunity for something good to show up when their company’s name and Nazi are searched together

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[–] Obonga@feddit.de 48 points 1 year ago (12 children)

At this point, is any racist shit from that dude even worth posting news about? Like i get that there should be consequences but i do not see any. All i see is info about a man i really do not want to read anything about. Daily. Not even only on here. Why does the internet have to be so god damn us-centric that i can not escape their crazy billionaires?

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[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 43 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Given how many discounts X is giving advertisers, holy shit this dude spent 2 dollars to make 1

[–] glacier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 1 year ago (6 children)

The point is to influence the election next year, not to make money

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[–] wookiepedia@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe X should rebrand itself as Twitter to move away from this scandal.

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Controlling the damage Elon does must be like trying to control a fire after the building is razed to the ground and nothing is left but smouldering ashes.

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[–] darth_tiktaalik@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 year ago

Annnnd he went full Henry Ford.

[–] n0m4n@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

I was getting excited about getting a new vehicle, and was looking at a Tesla.

But, Nope! I'll ride a tricycle before Elon gets a penny from me.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're not very good a product research if Elon being a shithead is what put you off Tesla. Tesla cars should put you off Tesla cars. Lying about range. Thousands of dollars for software features that don't work. Atrocious reviews from owners about reliability. The list goes on. Then there's the hostile racist workplaces where they are manufactured. Elon is just the tip of the iceberg.

The worst review I've ever heard of any product goes like this. "Imagine if your printer was your car, that's what owning a Tesla is like."

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[–] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anyone have the full tweet? It seems to have been deleted.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do, but it's just antisemitic ranting that's not worth amplifying

[–] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (32 children)

That's okay, I found it. I'll leave it here incase someone else is interested in the full story.

Jewish communties have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.

I’m deeply disinterested in giving the tiniest shit now about western Jewish populations coming to the disturbing realization that those hordes of minorities that support flooding their country don’t exactly like them too much.

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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.

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[–] alwaysfallingupyup@lemmings.world 25 points 1 year ago (15 children)

By the 1930s, the new Nazi government needed that technology — and recruited IBM for the job. Tabulating machines made tracking lines of Jewish descent possible, even if a German citizen’s family had married out of the religion or converted generations ago.

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 23 points 1 year ago

90 years ago. Musk is giving a platform to Nazi and endorsing them right now.

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[–] kamen@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (9 children)

It's as if this guy is trying to see how many times he can shoot himself in the foot and walk away.

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