[RandFan]

@elonmusk

Advertisers avoid controversy, so all that is needed for ADL to crush our US & European ad revenue is to make unfounded accusations. They have much less power in Asia, so our ad revenue there is still strong.

This “controversy” causes advertisers to “pause”, but that pause is permanent until ADL gives the green light, which they will not do without us agreeing to secretly suspend or shadowban any account they don’t like.

That is the relationship they’ve had with X/Twitter for many years. Presumably, they have that with all western search or social media orgs

[Wallace T.]

Censorship of even moderately conservative viewpoints through financial pressure has been the situation for decades. Despite having a huge audience, Rush Limbaugh was unable to obtain much on the way of corporate sponsors. His revenue came largely from local radio stations getting advertisers from businesses in their communities. And Limbaugh was within the Overton Window of acceptable opinions; he derided conspiracy theories and was certainly no racial and religious bigot.

Listen to mainstream conservative talk radio today. Most of the national advertisers are companies specializing in the conservative market: precious metals, survival foods, and health products. It isn't all the ADL, It is the woke character of many, if not most, large corporations.