Elon Musk pushed back on advertisers boycotting X over antisemitism and other hate speech on the platform formerly known as Twitter during the 2023 DealBook Summit in New York on Wednesday.
What he’s saying: “If somebody’s gonna try to blackmail me with advertising? Blackmail me with money? Go f**k yourself.” Musk said. “Don’t advertise.”
That’s the sort of thing I’ve been saying for years back when he first became involved with Tesla and SpaceX and everybody was fellating him for being such a “visionary” or whatever. I’d point out that what he was doing was nothing more than what any 12-year-old nerdy kid with a Popular Science subscription and a billion dollars would do, and would get downvoted to Hell for it.