Remember when Elon Musk told advertisers to “go f**k yourselves” when said advertisers decided to stop advertising on Twitter? If not, this will help. Well I am going to go out on a limb and suggest that this is making Elon hurt. Specifically in the bank account. Which is why Elon has been in Cannes this week to walk this back:
Elon Musk on Wednesday tried to walk back remarks lashing out at advertisers fleeing his X social media platform.
At the Cannes Lions advertising festival in Cannes, France, Musk was asked by WPP CEO Mark Read what he meant by telling advertisers threatening to pull ads from the platform late last year to “go f— yourself.”
Musk said it was meant as a general point on free speech rather than a comment to the wider advertising industry.
“It wasn’t to advertisers as a whole,” Musk said. “It was with respect to freedom of speech, I think it is important to have a global free speech platform, where people from a wider range of opinions can voice their views.”
“In some cases, there were advertisers who were insisting on censorship,” Musk said. “At the end of the day … if we have to make a choice between censorship and losing money, [or] censorship and money, or free speech and losing money, we’re going to choose the second.”
“We’re going to support free speech rather than agree to be censored for money which I think is the right moral decision,” he added.
The fact is that Elon is scrambling for cash because real advertisers have been replaced by porn and AliExpress ads. Clearly advertisers that pay Twitter’s bills are not coming back and he’s trying to thread the needle so to speak between getting those advertisers back while keeping his Nazi, racist, homophobic, and other scumbag friends happy. All to get money into his bank account. I am hoping that advertisers don’t fall for this and continue to avoid Twitter because Elon needs to pay for his behaviour. Literally.
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Elon Musk Is Slowly Walking Away From Telling Advertisers To “Go F**k Yourselves”
Remember when Elon Musk told advertisers to “go f**k yourselves” when said advertisers decided to stop advertising on Twitter? If not, this will help. Well I am going to go out on a limb and suggest that this is making Elon hurt. Specifically in the bank account. Which is why Elon has been in Cannes this week to walk this back:
Elon Musk on Wednesday tried to walk back remarks lashing out at advertisers fleeing his X social media platform.
At the Cannes Lions advertising festival in Cannes, France, Musk was asked by WPP CEO Mark Read what he meant by telling advertisers threatening to pull ads from the platform late last year to “go f— yourself.”
Musk said it was meant as a general point on free speech rather than a comment to the wider advertising industry.
“It wasn’t to advertisers as a whole,” Musk said. “It was with respect to freedom of speech, I think it is important to have a global free speech platform, where people from a wider range of opinions can voice their views.”
“In some cases, there were advertisers who were insisting on censorship,” Musk said. “At the end of the day … if we have to make a choice between censorship and losing money, [or] censorship and money, or free speech and losing money, we’re going to choose the second.”
“We’re going to support free speech rather than agree to be censored for money which I think is the right moral decision,” he added.
The fact is that Elon is scrambling for cash because real advertisers have been replaced by porn and AliExpress ads. Clearly advertisers that pay Twitter’s bills are not coming back and he’s trying to thread the needle so to speak between getting those advertisers back while keeping his Nazi, racist, homophobic, and other scumbag friends happy. All to get money into his bank account. I am hoping that advertisers don’t fall for this and continue to avoid Twitter because Elon needs to pay for his behaviour. Literally.
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