• 10 months ago
The CEO of X defended Elon Musk after he embarked on an expletive-ridden rant about advertisers halting spending on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.

Last year, after the platform’s owner was accused of antisemitism, a number of X’s biggest advertisers pulled their marketing from the platform - prompting Mr Musk to tell them to “go f*** yourselves”.

“I might have said it a different way, but the frustration was clear. We’re not going to change our core values and the conviction to our mission in exchange for profits,” Linda Yaccarino said.

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00:00 A lot of you in this room know me for a long time.
00:10 I might have said it a different way.
00:13 I landed it.
00:14 I landed it right there.
00:15 I might have said it a different way, but the frustration was clear.
00:21 We're not going to change our core values and the conviction to our mission in exchange
00:28 for profits, and we are encouraged and excited that the advertisers who are coming back and
00:36 believing us because they see what's going on are going to rethink giving into that pressure
00:41 too.
00:41 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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