In an interview at New York Times’ DealBook Summit, Elon Musk said to the advertisers pulling their ads from X, “If somebody’s going to try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money. Go f- yourself,” Alexa Corse of The Wall Street Journal reports. Earlier this month, Elon Musk responded to a user’s post on an antisemitic conspiracy theory with “You have said the actual truth.” Soon after, watchdog group Media Matters reported X placed ads for companies next to posts supporting Nazis. Since then, many companies have halted their ad spending on the platform, including IBM (IBM) and Disney (DIS). Disney CEO Bob Iger addressed the company’s decision to halt ads on the platform, saying Disney felt the association was no longer a positive one, but Disney entities could still use X as a platform to communicate.
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