#49
What about advertisers leaving X / hate speech on X?
Interviews
3
Answers
3
X posts
4
Span
2023 to 2024
First asked Nov 29, 2023, most recently Mar 18, 2024. Excerpts below are from machine transcripts with filler words (um, uh, you know) and stutters removed; … marks a cut. They are not checked word for word, so use the link to hear the exact words, or the transcript link for the raw text. Timestamps: 1 cross-checked against YouTube captions, 2 from the archive transcript only. X has no link-to-time option, so X links open at the start.
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Nov 29, 2023 · DealBook Summit · asked by Andrew Ross Sorkin
Q: Would you keep it going for a long time if there was no advertising?
I mean, if the company fails because an advertiser boycott, it will fail because of an advertised boycott and that will be what bankrupt the company. And that's what everybody on earth will know.
Dec 16, 2023 · Atreju Festival · asked by Interviewer
Q: Why an important investor like Disney said something so tough on X? What's going on there?
Well, I think, first of all, I think X will be fine. And we are actually already seeing advertisers return to X. So I guess they were, I don't know, upset with something I said or something, I don't know. But they advertisers, I think are the brand. Advertisers are a little, they're always worried about their brand and you know, maybe, I think maybe a bit more than they should be. But I think it's a short term …
Mar 18, 2024 · The Don Lemon Show · asked by Don Lemon
Q: What would you like to say to them?
Well, first of all, almost all of our advertisers are coming back platform. So it's about very short list of advertisers who are not coming back to Typhoon. And our advertising revenue is rising rapidly and our subscription revenue is rising rapidly. And I feel very optimistic about the future of the platform.
In his own posts on X
@elonmusk · Nov 22, 2023
@KanekoaTheGreat They are pure evil. How utterly absurd that this organization got major advertisers to boycott our platform for bogus allegations of antisemitism!
View on X ↗@elonmusk · Nov 24, 2023
@JohnnaCrider1 Not much we can do if advertisers boycott or reduce spend on our platform
View on X ↗@elonmusk · Aug 6, 2024
I strongly encourage any company who has been systematically boycotted by advertisers to file a lawsuit. There may also be criminal liability via the RICO Act.
View on X ↗@elonmusk · Oct 16, 2026
Going forward, all advertising on 𝕏 will be subject to a reasonable esthetic standard. Advertisers who post ads that are ugly, shrill, strident or overstate claims about their product will be barred from advertising.
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