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*Elon Musk has a message for advertisers boycotting his X (formerly Twitter) platform… “Go f*ck yourself,” he said during a new interview.
“What this advertising boycott is going to do is, it is going to kill the company,” Musk said Wednesday during a conversation with Andrew Ross Sorkin at the New York Times Dealbook Summit, per The Hollywood Reporter. “And the whole world will know that those advertisers killed the company.”
Musk also responded to Disney and other brands’ decision to pull advertising from X.
“Don’t advertise. If someone is going to try and blackmail me with advertising? Blackmail me with money? Go f*ck yourself,” Musk said. “Go f*ck yourself, is that clear? Hey Bob, if you’re in the audience,” said Musk to Disney CEO Bob Iger, a speaker at the summit. “That’s how I feel, don’t advertise.”
Musk is accused of promoting antisemitic content via his personal X account, prompting several advertisers, including Apple, to boycott X.
Twitter X logo (Costfoto-NurPhoto-Getty Images)
Musk addressed the controversial post during the summit.
“I should, in retrospect, not have replied to that particular post, and should have expanded in greater length about what I meant,” he said.
“I handed a loaded gun to those who hate me,” Musk added.
He said the post was “one of the most foolish” things he shared on X.
Watch his full remarks in the X/Twitter clip below.
The most incredible clip you will watch today! pic.twitter.com/XgqmZS3bUS
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 29, 2023
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