Elon Muskmade plain his view of the widespread advertiser withdrawal this month from X, formerlyTwitter.
Dont advertise, he urged any marketer with misgivings.
Somebodys going to venture to blackmail me with advertising?!
Blackmail me with money?
I hope it is.
(Watch the segment about advertising in the clip above.)
CEO Bob Iger was among the notable guests earlier in the day at the conference.
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Hey, Bob, if youre here in the audience, Musk said.
Sorry, thats how I feel.
Sorkin repeatedly asked Musk how the economic model of X/Twitter would be affected by a longer-term advertiser withdrawal.
What this advertising boycott is going to do is its going to kill the company, Musk declared.
And the whole world will know that thoseadvertiserskilled the company.
It will be documented in great detail.
Tell it to the judge, he said.
The judge is the public.
Let the chips fall where they may.
(Lindas got to sell advertising, Sorkin observed at one point.)
X, formerly Twitter, was a recurring theme, however.
The timing ofMusks recent trip to Israelwas a coincidence vis-a-vis the advertiser situation.
It was not an apology tour, he said.
The necklace bears a message urging the safe return of remaining hostages being held by Hamas.
It may be one of the dumbest of my 30,000 posts, he emphasized.
If you fund persecuted groups in general, some of those persecuted groups unfortunately want your annihilation.
What I meant is that its unwise to fund organizations that support groups that want your annihilation.
Later in the interview, Musk addressed his past admission that my mind is a storm.
The exec then hit on some of the themes that came to the fore in Walter Isaacsons recent biography.
Jill Goldsmith and Ted Johnson contributed to this report.
