More advertisers halt spending on X in growing backlash against Musk

Lools like the monetization to move away from relying on ads was the right one all along

There is a lot here to be think about. Three most interesting points to me are<p>1. These companies have bottom-of-the-barrel moral standards and don&#x27;t care what one person on Twitter is Tweeting. This has to be political manoeuvring of some sort.<p>2. A lot of advertisers were quitting Twitter a while ago weren&#x27;t they? But it has been months now. If they&#x27;re still quitting, that suggests the flood of quitters is more of a small trickle. So this the first time all these companies have quit? Or is it that the media companies are quitting this round?<p>3. Musk is still the wealthiest human on the planet (in history? I expect in nominal terms he&#x27;s the wealthiest in history). Twitter is a bit of a political sideshow for him. He might even decide to run it without ads, that&#x27;d hurt him financially and be a win for the rest of us.

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The reason for the lawsuit [1] seems to contradict itself; it&#x27;s against spreading misinformation on X, while invoking the principle of allowing misinformation on X?<p>&gt; &quot;But for speech to be truly free, we must also have the freedom to see or hear things that some people may consider objectionable. We believe that everyone has the right to make up their own minds about what to read...&quot;<p>So... &quot;Let [Media Matters] say what you [consider objectionable], and [let us make up our own minds about what to read].&quot;<p>I do get that that shouldn&#x27;t preclude lawsuits for slander&#x2F;libel... but suing people out of existence with &quot;thermonuclear&quot; lawsuits seems to be roughly the same type of tyranny as the censoring he&#x27;s taking a stand against.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;elonmusk&#x2F;status&#x2F;1725771191644758037" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;elonmusk&#x2F;status&#x2F;1725771191644758037</a>

As Sun Tzu said, when you are strong, appear weak.

Haha, the US is leaning towards the right wing, and Elon probably has an advantage in doing what he did. Similarly, he mentioned that AI needs to stop, but then proceeded with AI projects. He says what grabs attention to divert from what he truly wants to do.

This guy would be considered a genius, admired and respected worldwide, a living legend.. if he&#x27;d never opened that Twitter account. But he did, so he&#x27;s just another eccentric rich idiot.

Musk is now the poster child for ruining your own success via social media.<p>He had the world in his hand and now he&#x27;s an internet-poisoned laughing-stock chasing away all the advertisers.