This is the best summary I could come up with:
Dec 1 (Reuters) - Walmart (WMT.N) said on Friday it is not advertising on social media platform X, one of the latest brands to say it has dropped the Elon Musk-owned site.
The platform has struggled to retain advertisers since Musk acquired the company in October 2022, and faced a fresh exodus in recent weeks over rising concern about antisemitic content.
The user had also referenced the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory, which purports that Jewish people and leftists are engineering the ethnic and cultural replacement of white populations with non-white immigrants that will lead to a “white genocide.”
Musk apologized for his post during an interview at a New York Times DealBook event on Wednesday, but hurled expletives against advertisers that suspended their ads, accusing them of “blackmail.”
An executive at a major ad-buying agency, who declined to be named, said X ad sales representatives appeared frustrated in the aftermath of Musk’s outburst against brands and did not have much to say in conversations.
Major brands including Apple (AAPL.O), Walt Disney (DIS.N) and Warner Bros Discovery (WBD.O) also suspended their ads on X this month following a report from liberal watchdog group Media Matters, which said ads had appeared next to antisemitic posts.
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but hurled expletives against advertisers that suspended their ads, accusing them of “blackmail.”
Even if there was a totally illegitimate and unethical reason people were mad at X, that’s still not “blackmail”. That’s just business. No business wants to have their brand tarnished or lose money. That’s the opposite goal of advertising. No business would continue to lose money in pursuit of “free speech”. Only Musk will do that.
they lose a lot of customer base by doing this though. Like I personally won’t enter a building that doesn’t have self check, just too annoying to have to deal with a person, this is as someone who worked for 8 years as a cashier/retail at big box stores.
I get that it “saves jobs” not having self check but, honestly that’s not a job I would want again in the first place.
I don’t want self check out going away… I’m far more capable of handling my check out more accurately, faster, and with bagging things appropriately. The bottom of the barrel they hire there is so fucking exasperating to deal with that I’ll just go elsewhere
For me it’s not the cashier’s fault, I’m just generally an antisocial and I’ve done it long enough that I’m faster than most of them anyway plus I’m allowed to do it how I want and since I’m the one actually paying there’s a vested interest in it being accurate where when you’re just customer X in line there’s no incentive for accuracy for cashiers.
Sadly what I take out of this article, isn’t the fact that self-checks are going away but brick and mortar stores that a whole are going away. That’s what these big box companies don’t tell you, Walmart specifically because I’ve seen it popping up. Instead of putting in new stores they are putting in stores that are essentially just only a back room warehouse and they only service online orders.
It would be nicer if advertisers were pulling out because there simply is no audience on twitter anymore. I just wish more people had principles.
Twitter exists as my disassociation filter. Without it, I have no sly and ethical way of enquiry if a person is a moron, “Do you use Twitter?” It needs to stay.
Eh, too many people are oblivious to what’s going on. A significant number have just used it for so long that it’s hard for them to let go. It took me a hot minute to get over Reddit last summer, though my app of choice not working certainly helped. It’s best to remember that, like reddit, this user base is not representative of the general population.
“Too Nazi” for the walmarts is a rather high bar.
Lawsuit coming in 3…2….1….
