Elon Musk tells advertisers: ‘Go fuck yourself’

Elon Musk took the stage at the DealBook conference on Wednesday evening with nervous laughter and a cascade of jokes about himself and his companies. But the interview quickly turned to the more serious subject of Musk’s recent antisemitic posts on X and whether his company can survive the advertiser boycott. On that matter, Musk … Read more

Elon Musk to Boycotting Advertisers: Go F*ck Yourselves

“Go fuck yourself.” Thus spake Elon Musk during a really weird chat with Dealbook’s Andrew Ross Sorkin on Wednesday night. At the New York Times sponsored event, the increasingly unhinged Tesla CEO said that he wouldn’t be “blackmailed” by advertisers who—in response to his recent, controversial comments—might pull their money from his flailing social media … Read more

Elon Musk Tells Advertisers Boycotting X to ‘Go F-ck Yourself’

Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, says the advertisers that have stopped spending on the platform due to his endorsement of an antisemitic post can “f——” themselves. “What it’s going to do is it’s going to kill the company, and the whole world will know the advertisers killed the company,” Musk said at the … Read more

Elon Musk Just Told Advertisers, ‘Go Fuck Yourself’

Elon Musk says that advertisers fleeing X after his endorsement of an antisemitic post could “kill” the platform formerly known as Twitter. And he has a simple message for those companies, which include Disney, Apple, and IBM: “Go fuck yourself.” Musk, speaking Wednesday night at the New York Times’ DealBook Summit, said that advertisers with … Read more

Elon Musk says ‘go fuck yourself’ to advertisers leaving X

Your move, Linda. Elon Musk said “go fuck yourself” to advertisers who recently paused spending on X after he endorsed an antisemitic conspiracy theory on the platform. Onstage at the DealBook conference, Andrew Ross Sorkin asked the X owner about these pauses in advertising. Musk replied, “Don’t advertise.” “You don’t want them to advertise?” Sorkin … Read more

Elon Musk Pivots From Jews to Pizzagate as Advertisers Flee

If Elon Musk is actively trying to drive advertisers away from his floundering social media site X, then he’s doing a really fantastic job of it. Fresh off spurring a maelstrom of criticism over a tweet that was broadly decried as antisemitic (and which led to an outflux of advertisers), Musk has now decided to … Read more

Musk threatens ‘thermonuclear lawsuit’ against media watchdog, calls advertisers ‘oppressors’

Elon Musk lashed out at large advertisers and Media Matters, a media watchdog group, on Friday after several major brands decided to pause spending on X, the social media platform he owns and runs as CTO. Musk wrote late Friday night, “The split second court opens on Monday, X Corp will be filing a thermonuclear … Read more

X advertisers that have reportedly pulled ads recently: See the list

X, formerly known as Twitter, has lost another major advertiser—this time, it’s Disney. The entertainment giant is another in a string of major companies to have pulled ads from X after owner Elon Musk endorsed antisemitic conspiracy theories on his platform. SEE ALSO: Apple pauses ads on X / Twitter after Elon Musk endorses antisemitic … Read more

Amazon’s new generative AI tool lets advertisers enhance product images

Amazon is rolling out a new AI image generation tool for advertisers to generate backgrounds based on product descriptions and themes. Amazon is currently beta testing the tool with select advertisers and will expand availability “over time,” the company says. To use the tool, advertisers upload a photo, type an image description describing a background … Read more

Meta proclaims generative AI options for advertisers

Meta immediately introduced an AI Sandbox for advertisers to assist them create various copies, background era by way of textual content prompts and picture cropping for Fb or Instagram adverts. The primary function lets manufacturers generate totally different variations of the identical copy for various audiences whereas making an attempt to maintain the core message … Read more