I know right? Elon fires for effect.
But, what did they do to attack his company? I’m missing a little context here.
The media are calling him antisemitic for his comments on Wednesday which I posted here at the time
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4197227/posts
It’s baffling. The media say these comments are antisemitic.
I commented earlier: “I’ve never seen such a blatant twisting of facts”.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4197690/posts
Media Matters claimed in a report that Twitter/X has had a large increase in antisemitism...which was cited as the reason for some very large advertisers to cancel ads.
“As Musk endorses antisemitic conspiracy theory, X has been placing ads for Apple, Bravo, IBM, Oracle, and Xfinity next to pro-Nazi content”
Nov 16, 2023
A news media pile on claimed X (Twitter) was printing antisemitic posts, and that Elon posted his agreement with at least one of those posts.
The antisemitic example they gave was ridiculous...
Someone using profane language said he could not care less if Jewish Americans [82% voted for Biden - not in the post] were shocked that many of the millions of immigrants Biden let into the country were Jew and Israel haters.
Musk agreed with this statement with one very short sentence.
At least a half dozen major USA corporations almost instantly pulled their ads from X.
Everything that happened had the appearance of coordinated Hard Left propaganda and coordinated corporate retaliation.
It’s explained in his post.
“But, what did they do to attack his company? I’m missing a little context here.”
They’re funded by Soros, which pretty much tells you what they are trying to accomplish.
They do most of their work ‘behind the scenes’, often by the use of bots to make companies think that there’s a huge groundswell of people opposed to their targeted company. For example, if Walmart is advertising on X, they’ll make Walmart think that they’ll lose half of their business due to their advertising on X, when it’s really closer to half a percent of their business, if that. But given the options, most large companies will ‘play it safe’ and discontinue the advertising, which is why they keep winning.
Rush had to deal with that bunch, as they went after his advertisers, and in many cases were successful, but Rush’s people tracked down their methods, called them out, and showed it to their advertisers, so he was able to hang on to most of his advertisers...but even those advertisers were scared to death of Media Matters, and had to be convinced that they didn’t represent customer bases, not even close.
They are a tiny organization that is INCREDIBLY EFFECTIVE and they are why Leftist ‘boycotts’ seem to work when they otherwise shouldn’t, as they are the Brownshirts of these ‘boycotts’. A hypothetical example would be a left-wing organization threatens to boycott a Christian bookstore chain, and the bookstore chain buckles to the Leftists for seemingly no reason, since Leftists wouldn’t get caught dead in a Christian bookstore - the bookstore will actually think they’ll be doomed unless they carry books like “Johnny and Jim’s Carpet Rub”, or whatever.