Some big corporations will love hearing about this latest bit of news about Musk's ego toy (from a story originally by Media Matters):
"Big-name brands like Major League Baseball, Bayer, Tyson Foods and eBay have had their advertising placed next to Stew Peters' X account, which has more than 400,000 followers. Peters, who reportedly lives in Minnesota, has been associated with spreading far-right conspiracy theories, including false claims about COVID vaccines and racist, antisemitic and anti-LGBTQ tropes on his podcast.
Despite CEO Linda Yaccarino's reassurances that X "opposes antisemitism in all its forms," many critics say the platform has consistently demonstrated a lack of action against antisemitic content, and that X owner Elon Musk has engaging with such content on multiple occasions. [snip]
Several major brands have had their ads appear adjacent to accounts associated with white nationalist, neo-Nazi and even Holocaust-denial content, including the accounts of extremists recently restored to the platform under Musk, according to Media Matters. Some of the content being promoted includes long-discredited conspiracy theories linking Jewish people to the 9/11 attacks." (our emphasis)
Musk's response has been to threaten a lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League for informing advertisers of this situation.
As long as the transplanted South Afrikaner runs "X" / Twitter, he will ignore boundaries and, in the name of "free speech," push hateful and dangerous content from neo-Nazis, white supremacists and Russian trolls. Advertisers need to tell him that they will abandon his platform unless the situation changes, or they'll be tainted by its increasing toxicity.
The "X" is a thinly veiled stand in for the symbol Elon Skum wishes to use his Sturmplattform
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