Elon Musk’s social media platform X has sued a group of advertisers, alleging that a “massive advertiser boycott” deprived the company of billions of dollars in revenue and violated antitrust laws.
  • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    159·
    1 month ago

    Ah yes, suing your customers is a brilliant way to get more people to buy your stuff.

  • cmrn@lemmy.world
    145·
    1 month ago

    So let me get this straight…

    1. buy a platform
    2. ruin it and push away advertisers
    3. tell them you don’t need them and they should go fuck themselves
    4. sue them for leaving

    …?

  • masterofn001@lemmy.ca
    94·
    1 month ago

    Advertisers have given me no moneys either.

    Send cheque plz.

    I’d really love to see fElon get what he wants here. One paid ad from all the companies.

    “Elon fucks kids”

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    93·
    1 month ago

    Suing former advertisers may possibly not be the best way to get other advertisers to come to your platform.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    73·
    1 month ago

    Wow, I didn’t think he could top his past idiocy, but this is pretty impressive. “You were unfair to me because I’m a terrible piece of shit and you didn’t want the association of your brand and my nazi site so you owe me money!” It’s just incredible.

    Hat tip, Lonnie. You’ve outdone yourself again.

  • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
    73·
    1 month ago

    Man who told advertisers to go fuck themselves sues advertisers for not spending money on his platform.

    I’m sure this will be sure to bring in tons of advertising dollars to Der Xitter.

  • mercano@lemmy.world
    59·
    1 month ago

    Musk is suing under antitrust laws. I’m not sure they work that way. Antitrust laws prevent producers from consolidating and exploiting consumers. However, when it comes to advertising placements, the companies are consumers, not producers, and I don’t think a consumer advocacy group (which the World Federation of Advertisers functions as in this regard) is illegal.

    I don’t know, I am not a lawyer, but it seems like Twitter is grasping at straws here.

    • RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world
      22·
      1 month ago

      The interesting thing is that it means he is desperate enough to try something that makes him look this stupid

      Anybody with Elon Musk centric stocks needs to sell them quickly

    • jumperalex@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      1 month ago

      I know right? I mean if they colluded to lower advertising prices through collective agreement that would be something. Especially if they had an internal forcing mechanism to ensure compliance.

      But um, they set out voluntary guidelines they suggested everyone follow to protect each member’s own best interests, and decided to spend zero dollars to buy nothing, which is a far far cry from trying to spend zero dollars to buy something.

      What an ultra-maroon.

  • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
    27·
    1 month ago

    Didn’t he sue another company that did tests on the site to see if ads would show up beside hateful content, which showed they would, and that case ended up being dismissed?

    • Enthusiasticwhale@lemmy.worldOP
      9·
      1 month ago

      His “Free Speech Absolutionism” is just… Freedom from any consequences for what you say… Which is also a really stupid thought process…

  • madjo@feddit.nl
    11·
    1 month ago

    I didn’t know we could be entitled to advertisement money. Hang on while I sue Unilever for some free money in return for wearing a sandwich board with their logo on it