‘Go f**k yourself’: Musk blasts advertisers who left X

Nathan Jolly

November 30, 2023 2:20

Elon Musk has warned that companies that have pulled their advertising from X will just kill the platform off, saying to those who have: “Go f**k yourself.”

Musk made the heated comments onstage during The New York Times DealBook Summit, after interviewer Andrew Ross Sorkin brought up the current flood of advertisers leaving the platform.

Earlier this month, a report by Media Matters showed that IBM’s ads on the platform were being displayed alongside content “promoting Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party”.

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Nathan Jolly

Nathan Jolly is the Features Editor at Mumbrella. He joined the team in July, 2023.