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X Races to Contain Damage After Elon Musk Endorses Antisemitic Post

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IBM, a major advertiser on X, has pulled its spending from the social media platform, whose employees are grappling with what to tell its other advertisers, according to internal messages.

To be clear: Musk endorsed a tweet which used a false antisemitic conspiracy theory to tell people why "Hitler was right"

X Races to Contain Damage After Elon Musk Endorses Antisemitic Posthttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/16/technology/elon-musk-endorses-antisemitic-post-ibm.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-0w.7-SR.vK3KMaBaSzQnOpen linkView original on slrpnk.net
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In a note to employees on Thursday morning, Ms. Yaccarino said that “X is a platform for everyone” and that “discrimination by everyone should STOP across the board.”

Yeah but did she make it clear that the head twit is who was being talked about, and probably not any other employee? Did she have a private meeting with him to tell him to stfu? No? Then nothing has been done.

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