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.”
Just as with Donald Trump or America’s other high profile narcissistic capitalists, Musk’s shadow over society is entirely driven by the attention he is given. They DO NOT CARE what kind of attention it is. Clearly.
Stop following Xitter links. Stop regurgitating his idiotic vitriol of the day. Stop giving him oxygen.
Report on what his companies do or fail to do, report his business failures on objective terms. if you haven’t realized by now, the nonsense he says is nothing but self-hype or in this case shock/outrage bait.
With one notable exception: report, inform and spread news about Swedish metalworker union strike against Tesla.
Just as with Trump when he was in office, the right thing to do is report on actions, not their baiting words.
Your example falls under that. How is his company actually parcipating, not participating, undermining, etc union negotiations? Thats legit. Hypothetically reporting on Elon xeeting “fuck unions herp derp im edgy!” during said negotiations is a bad idea on the other hand.
While I agree with the sentiment, he’s only in deep shit right now because people talked about his antisemitic remarks. I think it’s good to continue reporting on his idiotic vitriol as much as possible, because it’s actively hurting him.
This. And also it makes the markets think twice about providing capital to this psychopath for future endeavors.
Because he’s such a breathtaking narcissist, he’s the front face of his companies, and that face is decaying in real time and the markets are reacting BECAUSE it’s in zeitgeist to talk about it
What remarks did he make that were “antisemitic”?