The company formerly known as Twitter filed the lawsuit against the World Federation of Advertisers and member companies Unilever, Mars, CVS Health and Orsted.
I wasn’t aware you can sue your customers when they decide to not give you their business anymore.
Imagine Walmart suing people, because they shop somewhere else now. Or your plumber because you called someone else to unclog your toilet.
It doesn’t sound like Musk is suing them because they broke any contracts, just that several big advertiser spoke to each other and decided not to renew contracts because of rising antisemitism, hate speach and fake news.
I mean, I tell people for 30 years not to buy Nestlé products because of their disregard for human rights. Can Nestlé now sue me too?
With how politically involved he wants to be now with his ridiculous and probably illegal PAC, it wouldn’t surprise me if this was a stunt to eclipse Kamala’s VP pick announcement.
What, only he gets to be delulu? Hold my tinfoil hat, fam.
I’m really straining to see what he’s even suing for and on what grounds. He surely thinks he has some kind of case - what is it? He’s suing them for antitrust conspiracy? But that would only make sense to do against another ad platform, not advertisers themselves. I know I’m supposed to just say “he’s stupid this is stupid” but my brain has trouble letting go of the idea that he must be thinking something here, yet I can’t tell for the life of me what it is.
Such a free speech absolutist. Wanting the government to compel companies to pay to speak on the private platform that he owns. Some real Trickle down free speech
Oh, you misheard - he doesn’t like “free speech”, he likes “freeze peach” - just a big fan of Super Mario. And Nazis - don’t forget how much he loves Nazis
I assume these companies being sued follow standard procedure, which is that everything freezes the moment a lawsuit starts. It’s pretty much a guarantee that these companies halt spending, let alone even communicate, with X
It’s also common to re-evaluate business deals after major acquisitions. Musk buying Twitter dramatically changes the business perception, and that’s what matters to advertisers. Twitter can’t even begin to try and claim it doesn’t, just look at Musk’s tweets leading into it and directly after. The entire purpose of his purchase was to fundamentally change it, he said so himself.
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I wasn’t aware you can sue your customers when they decide to not give you their business anymore.
Imagine Walmart suing people, because they shop somewhere else now. Or your plumber because you called someone else to unclog your toilet.
It doesn’t sound like Musk is suing them because they broke any contracts, just that several big advertiser spoke to each other and decided not to renew contracts because of rising antisemitism, hate speach and fake news.
I mean, I tell people for 30 years not to buy Nestlé products because of their disregard for human rights. Can Nestlé now sue me too?
Strange stance to take after telling them he doesn’t need them and they can “go fuck themselves” https://youtu.be/U_M_uvDChJQ?si=GJxx2MyScmSDCtcW
With how politically involved he wants to be now with his ridiculous and probably illegal PAC, it wouldn’t surprise me if this was a stunt to eclipse Kamala’s VP pick announcement.
What, only he gets to be delulu? Hold my tinfoil hat, fam.
Did I miss anything?
I’m really straining to see what he’s even suing for and on what grounds. He surely thinks he has some kind of case - what is it? He’s suing them for antitrust conspiracy? But that would only make sense to do against another ad platform, not advertisers themselves. I know I’m supposed to just say “he’s stupid this is stupid” but my brain has trouble letting go of the idea that he must be thinking something here, yet I can’t tell for the life of me what it is.
What a stupid degenerate.
Real evidence, or another Gym Jordan special?
Elon you can’t get anywhere by whining. Pick yourself up by the bootstraps and get to work. Sheesh. Youngsters these days are so lazy.
Not fair, he’s already made billions from (everybody else’s) hard labor!
Fuck Musk!!
Such a free speech absolutist. Wanting the government to compel companies to pay to speak on the private platform that he owns. Some real Trickle down free speech
Oh, you misheard - he doesn’t like “free speech”, he likes “freeze peach” - just a big fan of Super Mario. And Nazis - don’t forget how much he loves Nazis
This Musk kid is clearly not well…
So saying “Fuck you” to them and then suing? What a buffoon.
Suing your former customers, now there’s a way to make people want to do business with you!
I assume these companies being sued follow standard procedure, which is that everything freezes the moment a lawsuit starts. It’s pretty much a guarantee that these companies halt spending, let alone even communicate, with X
It’s also common to re-evaluate business deals after major acquisitions. Musk buying Twitter dramatically changes the business perception, and that’s what matters to advertisers. Twitter can’t even begin to try and claim it doesn’t, just look at Musk’s tweets leading into it and directly after. The entire purpose of his purchase was to fundamentally change it, he said so himself.
In related news, Musk filed separate suits against the sororities from his university for an “illegal boycott” against dating him.
Love it. Not the point but it is still funny to me that Elon renamed the company and the world revolted.