Elon Musk takes stage at Tesla Cybertruck deliveries event in Austin

Tesla CEO Elon Musk took the stage to reveal details about the company’s new and unconventional Cybertruck pickup on Thursday in Austin, Texas, one day after he appeared in a bizarre interview at the DealBook Summit in New York. At that earlier event, Musk boasted, “It will be the biggest product launch of anything by … Read more

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’s embrace of Israel won’t fix antisemitism on X

Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave Facing an exodus of advertisers over concerns of antisemitism on his social media site X, billionaire Elon Musk has gone to great lengths to align himself with Israel — 7,000 miles, in fact. That’s the approximate distance Musk traveled Monday to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin … 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

Elon Musk Is Giving QAnon Believers Hope Just in Time for the 2024 Elections

With no new messages from Q in almost three years and former US President Donald Trump facing mounting legal woes, one would think that the QAnon political conspiracy was losing steam. But, on November 22, Elon Musk may have renewed hope for conspiracists around the world: As the US was preparing for Thanksgiving, Musk tweeted … Read more

Elon Musk Unveils Plans for Starship Version Two

Moving swiftly and learning through failure, SpaceX says it’s already looking ahead to version 2 of the Starship upper stage. Like It or Not, Your Doctor Will Use AI | AI Unlocked In a tweet posted on November 24, company CEO Elon Musk shared a photo showing four Starship upper stages standing vertically at SpaceX’s … Read more