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Apple pulls its ads from X after Musk's antisemitic posts

by Umofomia on 11/17/23, 9:30 PM with 40 comments

• by huytersd on 11/17/23, 10:51 PM

  How could he go from being a role model and demigod to so many to such a piece of shit so quickly?

• by abcdefg12 on 11/17/23, 10:41 PM

  Why is Google still paying Musk money ?

• by eh_why_not on 11/18/23, 2:03 AM

  Can someone link to what he said exactly?

• by generj on 11/17/23, 11:22 PM

  If Apple doesn’t have a client relationship with “X” it is probably easier for them to publicly justify enforcing App Store policies.

• by mikestew on 11/17/23, 10:51 PM

  Axios cites unnamed sources in a report that Apple is pausing advertising on X.

  "Pausing". Until the next billionaire's club meeting, Tim and Elon kiss and make up, and it's back to business as usual like last time?

  I hesitate to type out the cynical hot take, but at what point does a company just say, "ya know, you're just not worth the headache"? How many times does the company representative have to say, "we're losing advertising dollars, and it's all the fault of The Jews!" before you just cut ties, and don't want to be associated with that noise?

  Those are somewhat honest questions, because I'll allow a little "well, with a multi-billion multi-national corporation it's just not that easy". I really would like to know why it's obvious to me to "as of today, we are pulling our advertising with $COMPANY, and we won't be coming back any time soon", but not obvious to (for example) Tim Cook.

• by leetgirl83 on 11/18/23, 12:49 PM

  Virtually every news outlet was lying about what Elon said. Almost like it was all coordinated. Here is a pretty good video on all the media lies

  https://youtu.be/u9l_2E4LPgY?si=_RjZjWTDsG8jb5Ol

• by i8comments on 11/18/23, 3:04 PM

  There is no link to what Elon Musk actually said in his own words.

• by monsterofcookie on 11/18/23, 12:56 AM

  Dear Apple, I do not respect knee-jerk reactions to headlines