Posted on 11/16/2023 9:21:51 PM PST by lasereye
IBM Corp. has abruptly pulled ads from X, formerly Twitter, amid a maelstrom of controversial comments from billionaire owner Elon Musk and the placement of IBM ads.
“IBM has zero tolerance for hate speech and discrimination and we have immediately suspended all advertising on X while we investigate this entirely unacceptable situation,” the company said in a statement emailed to MarketWatch.
IBM suspended advertising following a report by the Financial Times on Thursday that IBM ads appeared next to posts supporting Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. A Media Matters study also found ads from Apple Inc., Oracle Corp., and Comcast Corp.’s Xfinity and Bravo were adjacent to pro-Nazi content.
On Wednesday, Musk agreed with a post on X supportive of an antisemitic conspiracy theory that Jewish people hold a “dialectical hatred” of white people. “You have said the actual truth,” Musk wrote in response to the post.
Compounding matters, Musk on Thursday said on X it was “super messed up” that white people are not, in the words of one far-right user’s tweet, “allowed to be proud of their race.”
Adding fuel to the fire, Musk said on Wednesday that the Jewish advocacy group the Anti-Defamation League “unjustly attacks the majority of the West, despite the majority of the West supporting the Jewish people and Israel.” (Musk has threatened to sue the ADL because of its criticism of lax moderation practices on X that it says have allowed antisemitism to spread.)
The cascading conflagration prompted Tesla Inc. TSLA, -3.81% bull and investment adviser Ross Gerber to grumble on X: “Getting a flood of messages from clients wanting out of tesla and anything to do with Elon Musk. Many saying they are selling their cars as well. What is he doing to the tesla brand??!!?!?”
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For woke companies, virtue signaling is more important than profits.
IBM should know about anti-semitism, given their history (via their German subsidiary) with the Nazis in WWII.
IBM is still in business?
The hate group known as the ADL claims Musk is hateful, isn’t that the pot calling the kettle black? The ADL, SPLC, ACLU, BLM, NAACP, and a host of other left-wing groups that stoke the flames of anti-White hatred should be kicked off of X.
Musk is on record asking why can’t you criticize George Soros and Hansjörg Wyss for their incessant meddling in world affairs without being accused of anti semitism
It is documented that both contribute to anti Israel street mobs
I like Musk
He’s done us a favor with twitter
Hope he stays strong
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