Musk apologizes for endorsing antisemitic Tweet...rips into advertisers

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Elon Musk apologizes for antisemitic tweet but tells advertisers ‘go f**k yourself

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Elon Musk, in his first interview with mainstream media since his antisemitic post on X earlier this month, apologized Wednesday for what he called his “dumbest” ever social media post. But he lashed out at advertisers leaving his platform because of rising antisemitism on X.

“I don’t want them to advertise,” he said at the New York Times DealBook Summit in New York. “If someone is going to blackmail me with advertising or money go f**k yourself. Go. F**k. Yourself,” he said. “Is that clear? Hey Bob, if you’re in the audience, that’s how I feel” he added, referring to Disney CEO Bob Iger, who spoke earlier at the summit on Wednesday.

Musk also said he has no problem being hated. “Hate away,” he said. “There’s a real weakness to wanting to be liked.”

Clad in a leather jacket, black jeans leather boots, and a necklace given to him by a family member of an Israeli hostage that says “bring them home,” Musk added that it’s been “a hell of a year,” and admitted that he sometimes says “the wrong thing.”

A number of prominent brands paused their advertising on X, formally known as Twitter, this month following Musk’s public embrace of an antisemitic conspiracy theory favored by White supremacists.

The advertising exodus included media companies like Disney, Paramount, NBCUniversal, Comcast, Lionsgate and Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent of CNN.

But he also said his tweet, slammed as antisemitic, might be “the worst” he’s ever done.

“I mean, look, I’m sorry for that … post,” he said. “It was foolish of me. Of the 30,000 it might be literally the worst and dumbest post I’ve ever done. And I’ve tried my best to clarify six ways from Sunday, but you know at least I think it’ll be obvious that in fact far from being antisemitic, I’m in fact philosemitic.”

Musk visited Israel this week, where he went to a Kibbutz attacked by Hamas on October 7, spoke with families of Israeli hostages and met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog.

But Musk said on Wednesday that his trip to Israel “wasn’t an apology tour,” and that “it wasn’t in response to all of that.” Musk said that he is a good person but he’s not going to “tap dance” to show people that.

On Monday, Musk told Netanyahu of the recent attacks that “those who are intent to murder must be neutralized; then the propaganda must stop that is training people to be murderers in the future; and then making Gaza prosperous. If that happens, I think it’ll be a good future…. I’d love to help.”

But in a separate conversation at the DealBook Summit, Herzog appeared uncertain that Musk would remain consistant in his messaging.

“We had an open and frank conversation which I found interesting and I think it was mutually beneficial to both of us,” said Herzog. “I sincerely hope that we will see some of [his activism against antisemitism] in the near future.”
 
LOL, Musk is so rich that losing $1 billion dollars to him is like losing pocket change to the average person.
I wonder if he is going to pay CNBC fines! They did a live interview with him with no delay and he dropped the F bomb multiple times and the FCC will fine CNBC for those lol
 
I wonder if he is going to pay CNBC fines! They did a live interview with him with no delay and he dropped the F bomb multiple times and the FCC will fine CNBC for those lol
CNBC is a cable channel. They are not going to (cannot) be fined by FCC for language.
 
Apparently these companies don't consider pro-Hamas videos on tiktok to be anti- Semitic, as I've seen no announcements of them pulling ads. This is their spending through the first quarter of the calendar year. Source:



Leading TikTok advertisers in the United States between January 1 and May 1, 2022, by spending(in million U.S. dollars)

table
column chart
Characteristic Spending in million U.S. dollars
Amazon 22.5
HBO 19
Cerebral 13.3
TurboTax 12.2
Hello Fresh 11.3
Samsung 10.5
McDonald 10.4
PepsiCo 9.7
Zynga 8.9
Procter & Gamble 8.6
Showing entries 1 to 10 (10 entries in total)
© Statista 2023

I'd like to see tiktok held to at least the same standards as X. Some will say it's because X's owner was involved, I'd counter with the CCP's human rights record.
 
Apparently these companies don't consider pro-Hamas videos on tiktok to be anti- Semitic, as I've seen no announcements of them pulling ads. This is their spending through the first quarter of the calendar year. Source:



Leading TikTok advertisers in the United States between January 1 and May 1, 2022, by spending(in million U.S. dollars)

table
column chart
Characteristic Spending in million U.S. dollars
Amazon 22.5
HBO 19
Cerebral 13.3
TurboTax 12.2
Hello Fresh 11.3
Samsung 10.5
McDonald 10.4
PepsiCo 9.7
Zynga 8.9
Procter & Gamble 8.6
Showing entries 1 to 10 (10 entries in total)
© Statista 2023

I'd like to see tiktok held to at least the same standards as X. Some will say it's because X's owner was involved, I'd counter with the CCP's human rights record.
TikTok CEO Challenged by Tech Leaders on Pro-Palestine Posts
About 40 leaders pushed for moderation of antisemitic content
TikTok has faced renewed calls from politicians to ban the app

 
TikTok CEO Challenged by Tech Leaders on Pro-Palestine Posts
About 40 leaders pushed for moderation of antisemitic content
TikTok has faced renewed calls from politicians to ban the app


I'm not signing up to read one article - just tell me how many of the advertisers listed in my article are pulling their ads from tiktok. Otherwise, I'm assuming pulling advertising was more of an anti-Elon move than a response to anti-Semitism.
 
I'm not signing up to read one article - just tell me how many of the advertisers listed in my article are pulling their ads from tiktok. Otherwise, I'm assuming pulling advertising was more of an anti-Elon move than a response to anti-Semitism.
I think it was a little of both. Also isn’t TikTok owned by a Chinese company? I think they pulled the adds on Twitter for PR reasons and Musks response made it easy to flip Twitter the bird and advertise else where. They will still probably be back on Twitter that’s the capitalists way. It all comes down to what a company thinks will make them the most money(most of the time).
 
I'm not signing up to read one article - just tell me how many of the advertisers listed in my article are pulling their ads from tiktok. Otherwise, I'm assuming pulling advertising was more of an anti-Elon move than a response to anti-Semitism.
U said u wanted TicTok to be held to the same standards . I provided an article from last week showing that 40 leaders in the tech industry are working to do just that and hold tiktok to the same standard.

Just letting u know your not alone in those thoughts
 
I think it was a little of both. Also isn’t TikTok owned by a Chinese company? I think they pulled the adds on Twitter for PR reasons and Musks response made it easy to flip Twitter the bird and advertise else where. They will still probably be back on Twitter that’s the capitalists way. It all comes down to what a company thinks will make them the most money(most of the time).
Every Chinese company is owned by the ccp. Whether they want you to believe it or not
 
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