?Go f**okay your self,? the tech mogul stated in a stay interview
Anyone who tries to stress X (previously Twitter) by promoting can “go f**k yourself,” the platform’s proprietor, tech billionaire Elon Musk, stated on Wednesday.
New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin requested Musk on the DealBook Summit on Wednesday whether or not his current journey to Israel was “an apology tour” prompted by allegations of anti-Semitism on X that brought about many main advertisers to ditch the platform.
“I hope they stop. Don’t advertise,” Musk responded, to Sorkin’s shock. “If someone’s going to try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money? Go f**k yourself.”
“Go. F**k. Yourself. Is that clear? I hope it is,” he added. “That’s how I feel. Don’t advertise.”
Musk purchased Twitter final yr for an estimated $44 billion, objecting to the platform’s censorship. He has since rebranded it to X, fired a lot of the employees, and unbanned many accounts within the identify of selling free speech.
Earlier this month, a number of main companies pulled their advertisements from X, following a report by the advocacy group Media Matters for America (MMFA) that claimed the platform displayed them subsequent to “pro-Nazi” and “anti-Semitic” content material.
X responded by publishing an evaluation displaying that Media Matters manipulated the algorithms with pretend accounts to falsify its claims. Musk has filed a lawsuit in opposition to the Democrat-linked operation.
On Monday, Musk visited Israel and met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog. Netanyahu lectured Musk on the “death cult” of Hamas, whereas Herzog insisted that X should crack down on “Jew hate.” Musk additionally visited Kfar Aza, the settlement close to Gaza that was attacked by Hamas on October 7, and was proven the 44-minute movie Israel has put collectively to showcase the Palestinian militant group’s atrocities.
After Netanyahu in contrast Israel’s army actions in Gaza to what the Allies needed to do with Germany and Japan within the Second World War, Musk agreed on the necessity for “taking out the terrorists and those intent on murder,” however stated Israel ought to “help those that remain, which is what happened in Germany and Japan.”
On Tuesday, Hamas issued a public invitation for Musk to go to Gaza, within the curiosity of “objectivity and credibility.” The tech mogul replied on X that it “seems a bit dangerous there right now.”
(RT.com)