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Elon Musk tells advertisers trying to ‘blackmail’ X — ‘Go fuck yourself’

November 30, 2023No Comments


billionaire businessman Elon Musk is making headlines again, this time for an expletive-laden outburst on live television at an annual conference hosted by The New York Times.

Speaking at the DealBook 2023 Summit in New York on November 29, Elon Musk, owner of microblogging platformformerly Twitter), lashed out at advertisers who left the social media site because of anti-Semitic posts he amplified there.

Musk recently publicly endorsed what the White House called “anti-Semitic and racist hate” on the platform, for which he has since apologized. The tweet has also been deleted.

However, when interviewer Andrew Ross Sorkin asked about advertisers leaving the platform, Musk stated:

“If someone is going to try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money, fuck you… Go… fuck yourself. Is it clear? I hope it is."

Musk also yelled at Disney CEO Bob Iger, who was reportedly in the audience, saying "Hey Bob!" since the company was one of several advertisers to abandon X.

"What this advertising boycott is going to do, it's going to kill the company," Musk told Sorkin, adding: "And the whole world will know that those advertisers killed the company, and we will document it in great detail."

A Nov. 24 report from The New York Times He suggested that up to $75 million in revenue could be at risk from more than 200 advertisers, including Airbnb, Coca-Cola and Microsoft.

Earlier this month, Media Matters reported which found ads for Apple, Bravo, Oracle, Xfinity, and IBM alongside posts promoting Hitler and his Nazi Party on X.

According to a November 25 NPR report, the platform has lost 50 of its top 100 advertisers since Elon Musk took over. Big-name brands like Ford, Verizon, Chevrolet, Chipotle and several pharmaceutical companies like Merck have pulled advertising in recent months.

Related: Twitter is now worth half of the $44 billion Elon Musk paid for it

Crypto advisor Aubrey Strobel saw the funny side of the outbreak: observing that CNBC did not expect it, “so there was no profanity delay and therefore violated FCC guidelines, which means CNBC is fined. Funny."

“What I see everywhere is people who care about looking good while doing evil. “Fuck them,” continued Musk, who was now on a roll.

Political commentator Collin Rugg saying"And this is exactly why Elon was the perfect person to buy Twitter."

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