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bachalxyz@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

A new report sheds light on how advertising is going at Elon Musk's X — and the numbers aren't good

www.businessinsider.com

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A new report sheds light on how advertising is going at Elon Musk's X — and the numbers aren't good

www.businessinsider.com

bachalxyz@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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Big names like Apple, IBM, Walmart, and Disney pulled their ads from X, formerly Twitter, after Elon Musk backed antisemitic views on the platform.
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    I just want to know how much Russia paid Musk to buy Twitter.

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      Billions of the funding to purchase came from members ofthe lovely ruling family of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

      You know, the guys who gave Jared kushner 2 billion for… some reason. And who TFG absolutely adores.

      Middle Eastern money is a good sign for Musk, with 32% of the original $7.1 billion equity commitment coming from Alwaleed and the Qatari fund.

      https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2022/10/31/saudi-prince-alwaleed-becomes-twitters-second-largest-shareholder

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      Russia doesn’t pay people for that sort of thing, especially not a person like Musk. Instead they extort. Possibly over rare materials.

      Anyway I don’t think Russia was part of Musks takeover of twitter, that stemmed from Musks own arrogant stupidity, but they certainly did become one afterwards.

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        I was going to edit my comment to include blackmail / kompromat as well, which in the end I do find to be more likely.

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            Possibly, but that wouldn’t be par for the course for them.

            Strange you seem to care so much in pushing against that. Quite curious.

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        I think Putin just flattered Musk and he fell for it hook, line and sinker.

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      Did I miss something? What’s the connection between Russia and Musk?

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        https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-peddling-putin-propaganda-ukraine-crimea-1234612343/

        https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-21/musk-told-pentagon-staff-he-spoke-to-putin-before-starlink-call

        https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/13/russias-putin-praises-elon-musk-days-after-ukraine-starlink-controversy

        Etc

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          Sorry… what do Jews have to do with this?

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              “Judeo” means Jewish. You didn’t know that?

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                  Then please explain what any of this has to do with Jews. You brought Jews into it. Why?

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              Didn’t you know that the Jews are responsible for every evil in the world? Every self-respecting wingnut knows that.

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                  Did you read the second sentence of this post?

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