'Meltdown': Kara Swisher reacts to Musk telling advertisers| complete video| CNN News |News
'Meltdown': Kara Swisher reacts to Musk telling advertisers| complete video| CNN News |News
Elon Musk is rather subtle in slamming advertisers for abandoning X after he endorsed an anti-Semitic post on the platform. Go [bleep] Yourself if someone is attempting to blackmail me with money or advertising. However, go [bleep] on your own. Is that clear? I hope it is.
Kind of seems like he wanted more of a reaction so he tried it again with the audience there. It all happened last night during that live audience interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin at "The New York Times" deal summit. Musk did apologize for endorsing an anti-Semitic post calling it the worst and dumbest social media post he's ever done. Joining us now is CNN contributor Kara Swisher. I guess he got the chuckle on the second he was looking for in that statement. I guess.
It's fascinating to me, It's fascinating to me, though, as we watch this, right, and he's there on the stage, and he seems to really be enjoying the moment, We have an estimate from "The New York Times" that says he will lose $75 million in revenue, I think. And he seems to be saying, all right, you're not needed. However, the company itself depends on them, and as a result of his actions, they are disappearing.
Indeed, it is important to emphasize to the audience that he is fifty-two years old. This 52-year-old man believes that in order to attract people's attention, he must offend them. He seems to be trying to put the blame on them for using their First Amendment right to avoid advertising on his terrible platform, but that's just absurd, and he started the problem. It's really peculiar. It was an odd performance. There was a meltdown. He seemed to be berating Disney CEO Bob Iger, who happened to be in attendance, for just not wanting to advertise his company.
It was so strange, and he'd done it before. He attacked advertisers when he first bought the company because he was frustrated, but again, let me underscore, he's again, let me underscore, he's 52 years old and the richest person in the world, and I'm sorry he's -- that's not how adults behave. It's how adult toddlers behave. And also, certainly not how public companies -- heads of public companies behave. One of the drivers of how that public company is S supposed to survive is the advertising, the person responsible for the advertising came over with much fanfare, Linda Yaccarino. I'm struck, she put out a tweet last night, I don't know what it was trying to do to be completely candid with you, saying here's my perspective when it comes to advertising.
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