Apple will pause all its advertising on X, formerly Twitter, two days after owner Elon Musk tweeted his enthusiastic agreement with an antisemitic post.

A cascade of other major technology and media companies, from IBM to Disney, made similar announcements on Friday.

Apple’s ads had run beside tweets praising Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, according to a report released earlier in the week. Film studio Lionsgate said it would also pause ads on X, as did Warner Bros, Paramount, Sony Pictures, and Comcast/NBCUniversal, according to media reports. IBM made a similar move the night prior. The New York Times reported Disney would be pausing spending on the social media platform as well.

The billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX wrote Wednesday that a tweet accusing Jews of hating white people was “the actual truth”. The White House condemned Musk’s statements Friday morning, lambasting them as “abhorrent”. A coalition of more than 150 rabbis had called for Apple, Disney, Amazon, Oracle and others to stop advertising on the social network in response to Musk’s tweets.

  • @A_A
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    -41 year ago

    Elon Musk tweeted his enthusiastic agreement with an antisemitic post.

    So, what was the stupid post anyway ? (Hope it was not a simple pro Palestine post). I know the guy is crazy but if we accuse him of something let’s say what exactly is the accusation.

      • @A_A
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        -21 year ago

        Jewish Communities have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.

        I will not comment about the rest (which is for me somewhat hard to understand). But I will make a simple (or maybe simplistic) comment about the part I have transcribed above.

        I think this sentence doesn’t say “hate Jews”. I think it says : “it is bad that Jews push hate speech against whites (meaning non Jews).” To be simplistic this means “hate is bad”.

        I am not sure about the use of the word “dialectical” in that sentence.