Elon Musk pushed back on advertisers boycotting X over antisemitism and other hate speech on the platform formerly known as Twitter during the 2023 DealBook Summit in New York on Wednesday.

What he’s saying: “If somebody’s gonna try to blackmail me with advertising? Blackmail me with money? Go f**k yourself.” Musk said. “Don’t advertise.”

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    7 months ago

    “What this advertising boycott is going to do [is] to kill [X]. The whole world will know that those advertisers killed the company and we will document it in great detail.”

    I, too, prefer making other people the scapegoat to avoid letting myself feel any personal responsibility over my actions.

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      7 months ago

      It’s like a rapist who ends up in jail and blames the victim with the rationale that “she was asking for it”.