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”
His creditors include Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and allegedly parties with ties to Putin. I don’t think they’ll take kindly to losing their fortunes, even if you subscribe to the belief they will relish the collapse of Twitter/X for the general purpose of authoritarian reach. EM is gonna fall from a window at this rate.
Those parties got exactly what they wanted to buy. The death of their detractors’ communication platform.
and identifying information of posters so they can plug leaks and crush dissent.
For 44 billion? That’s a waste of money. They can keep DDOSing or filling the company with exploit writing informants for cheaper.
Don’t get my hopes up