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[–] [email protected] 61 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

You mean advertisers aren’t climbing all over themselves to buy spots on it? Maybe the new streaming service will save the day.

/s

[–] [email protected] 56 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He could try suing companies for not running ads. It seems to be working for Elon.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I’d heard that he was going to do that, but is he and it’s working!?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Depends on how you define "working".

He managed to kill a non-profit that advised not advertising on Xitter because it's a racist shithole. I don't think it's gonna bring back any advertisers, but with the help of a pet Texas judge he's SLAPP suing his detractors out of existence.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

One could argue that the non profit has largely done its job at this point so it's only a symbolic victory.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

wait what?? i havent heard of this?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah, Musk blamed GARM for advertisers "boycotting" X so he sued them then they disbanded. Of course, Mush and Yaccarino are strutting about like roosters apparently not realizing how obvious this suit makes it that you do business with X at your own peril.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

He just filed the lawsuit in the last few days. Too early to tell if it’s working, but many legal experts are laughing at it.