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Elon Musk deletes ‘Pizzagate’ meme following widespread backlash

Billionaire Elon Musk on Tuesday took down a post from his account on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that embraced a years-old false conspiracy theory about child sex trafficking after the tech and media mogul received widespread backlash and mockery.

Musk’s posts contained a humor-based sequence of images, informally known as a meme, promoting the debunked notion that a child sex ring had been operating out of a pizza parlor in Washington, D.C.

“Pizzagate,” as the conspiracy theory became known across the internet, resulted in a man opening fire on the pizza parlor in 2016.

Musk posted that it “does seem at least a little suspicious,” in reference to the meme, which claimed “Pizzagate is real” and that the expert who debunked the conspiracy “went to jail for child porn.”

The billionaire’s post was met Tuesday with widespread pushback from media and technology watchdogs.

It came just a day after Musk returned from Israel, where he toured a kibbutz attacked by Hamas on Oct. 7, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Musk had sparked similar outrage earlier this month over antisemitic remarks he made on X, which have resulted in a mass exodus of advertisers from the platform.

Musk, whose account holds some 164 million followers, frequently posts on the platform and interacts with far-right users and accounts promoting fringe ideas.

In October of last year, he deleted a tweet promoting a conspiracy theory about an assault on Paul Pelosi, the husband of former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).

https://thehill.com/policy/technolo...-qssl3Ck71i0DbiYdNYP2T-Kcg7hrE9QVFkTX5t0

The problem being there are a small portion of idiots that wield a lot more power than the vast majority of them. Those are the one's you have to be careful of on both sides.

^ Clearly didn't get it.

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/musk-hits-back-at-x-advertisers-6490546/

That'll teach 'em.

Good for him. He is right.

Well obviously you don’t understand his genius. He’s a visionary like Kanye, so the sheep will never get it. We should be praising our lord and savior Elon.

I own a Tesla, and some of his conduct is already making me regret it. The guy is truly a nut. He'll do some things where I'm like "yeah, go Elon!" like when he delivered Spacex to Ukraine, and challenged Putin to a bout, despite how crazy that was. Then sometimes he does things - like all the recent stuff - where he is just the worst...

Debatable. But regardless, he's being an idiot.

Obviously I'm not the one who doesn't get it.

Memphis doesn't get it.

The right has a conundrum on their hands. They have to square the phrase ‘go woke, go broke’ with their lord and savior Elon, who is whining about ‘woke’ corporations making X go broke by removing their ads.

What is so strange to me is the guy just recently talked about the potential unionization of Tesla factory workers by saying something along the lines of "If Tesla gets unionized, it's because we deserve it" meaning that they (he/corporate) failed in some way.

Then on Twitter, he acts like a completely clueless jackass, causing advertisers to leave, but it's everyone else's fault?

Help it make sense to me.

Hell, I was gonna ask you to help me understand it.

It appears we are at an impasse...

Bi-Polar.

Walmart is the latest advertiser to pull ads from Elon Musk’s X

Walmart confirmed on Friday that it is not advertising on X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk and formerly known as Twitter.

“We aren’t advertising on X as we’ve found other platforms to better reach our customers,” a Walmart spokesperson said.

Reuters first reported Walmart’s move.

A number of prominent brands paused their advertising on X, last month following Musk’s public embrace of an antisemitic conspiracy theory favored by White supremacists.
Incendiary remarks

Musk apologized Wednesday for what he called his “dumbest” ever social media post. But he lashed out at advertisers leaving his platform.

“I don’t want them to advertise,” Musk said at the New York Times DealBook Summit in New York. “If someone is going to blackmail me with advertising or money go f**k yourself. Go. F**k. Yourself,” he said.

The advertising exodus included media companies like Disney, Paramount, NBCUniversal, Comcast, Lionsgate and Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent of CNN.
Ongoing damage control

Musk visited Israel this week, where he went to a Kibbutz attacked by Hamas on October 7, spoke with families of Israeli hostages and met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog.

But Musk said on Wednesday that his trip to Israel “wasn’t an apology tour,” and that “it wasn’t in response to all of that.” Musk said that he is a good person but he’s not going to “tap dance” to show people that.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/01/business/walmart-advertiser-ads-x-elon-musk/index.html

I guess that's what he calls approving of an antisemitic post now. "Tap dancing". And he just keeps digging that hole deeper....

When Elon and Rogan smoked Willie’s weed on air, they damaged all their good brain cells.

Sometimes people and businesses do the right thing and sometimes they do the wrong thing. Unlike some I'm willing to recognize both. But then you have a meme.

“I mean, look, I’m sorry for that … post,” Musk said, per CNN. “It was foolish of me. Of the 30,000 it might be literally the worst and dumbest post I’ve ever done. And I’ve tried my best to clarify six ways from Sunday, but you know at least I think it’ll be obvious that in fact far from being antisemitic, I’m in fact philosemitic.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-apologizes-antisemitic-tweet-223320943.html

Waiting on the right to come trash Elon for apologizing to the woke mob.

Yeah right… He can say or do anything. His billionaire status buys him rights the rest of us never get to enjoy, like lying his ass off and expecting to be believed.

Elon Musk demands Bob Iger ‘be fired’ after Disney pulled ads from X

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/elon-musk-demands-bob-iger-165619947.html

Dude has nobody to blame but himself. And calling for peoples jobs like this reminds me a whole lot like Trump.

Add to the growing list of reasons I dislike Elon.

For some reason he thinks now he has the power to call the shots on everything. There's a name for that.

Idk, Swish & Pit, but it’s sad to see a guy who used to act progressive and was admired by many sink so low. And to think, I almost pulled the trigger on a Tesla. I’m so happy covid nixed that for me. I’d just be sick if I put that kind of money in this new Fascist Elon’s pockets.

Sorry to hear you bought a Datsun instead.

Please try and keep up, they haven't made Datsuns since the early 80's.. They are Nissans now and what's wrong with that. They are great cars. The Z, The GT-r and The Maxima are well built and fast. In addition, many Nissans are made right in the USA by American Workers. So what is your problem?

Oh, and who brought up Datsuns anyway?

Don’t mess with Mickey Mouse.

If I wanted to afford a passion project car it’d be a 1977 Datsun 280z or 240z. So damn good looking. Both of them.
I currently own a 2002 Nissan Frontier 4x4. Manufactured in Tennessee. It’s a workhorse with 168,000 miles in it. It’s not my daily driver anymore so I can keep it on the road for another decade or so as my music festival, Burning Man, hardware/lumberyard vehicle.

Love my Nissan.

I think that’s her way of sticking up for antisemitism.

Yeah, there is a huge Nissan plant very close to where I live. It looks like she doesn't support American workers.

If you you don’t find this pretty there’s something wrong with you.

So pretty, that the Datsun Z was the most stolen vehicle in the USA in the 80’s

Look at all the libtards wanting Datsuns lmao

As per usual, nothing. Just lame BS that holds no value. I understand how you hate to support American jobs and manufacturing.

Are you clueless? Do you need to buy a vowel? Do you need to phone a friend for a clue? The poster was congratulating himself on not buying a Tesla. Tesla is American jobs and manufacturing. And AMERICAN OWNED. Not feeding American money to a foreign entity.

Now making excuses not to support American jobs.

Actually there isn’t enough Americans to fill the current job market. Maybe if we opened our southern borders to immigration again we could bring back American manufacturing like it used to be before we sent it all to Asia.

Actually Im really wanting this.