Elon Musk pushed back on advertisers boycotting X over antisemitism and other hate speech on the platform formerly known as Twitter during the 2023 DealBook Summit in New York on Wednesday.
What he’s saying: “If somebody’s gonna try to blackmail me with advertising? Blackmail me with money? Go f**k yourself.” Musk said. “Don’t advertise.”
That’s not the behaviour of a adult, that’s also not the behaviour of someone in charge of a company I want to give any of my time to and certainly not the behaviour of someone who should be in charge of this Internet bank thing he wants X to become.
There’s a theory that wealth masks a lot of mental health issues behind the eccentric billionaire persona, and it definitely shows with him.