Elon Musk tells advertisers: ‘Go fuck yourself’
www.theverge.com
Musk also apologized for the antisemitic post, then pushed the idea in other terms.

he said. “We’ll be gone, and it’ll be gone because of an advertiser boycott.”… eeer, no.

  • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.socialEnglish
    19·
    1 year ago

    I’m a little confused by this comment, Twitter isn’t a publicly traded stock anymore?

    Unless you mean he made deals with them before he BOUGHT twitter (for well beyond market value), meaning the hedgies would be taking a loss…?f

    edit: that doesn’t preclude the possibility he’s tanking the company so he can declare bankruptcy to get out of his loans, but that doesn’t involve conspiring with hedge funds, it’s just a different kind of financial fraud

    • TurtleJoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Your edit has been my pet theory for some time. That and he gets to ruin a platform that leftists have used to organize around the world.

      • IHadTwoCows@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        That just tells me that he doesnt understand how leftists work. We change platforms on the reg.