00:00 You don't want them to advertise? No. What do you mean?
00:02 Somebody's gonna try to blackmail me with advertising? Blackmail me with money?
00:08 In a shocking turn of events, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has escalated tensions with advertisers
00:15 by cursing them at an interview. This comes amid a growing controversy over an alleged
00:20 anti-Semitic post by Musk on his social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
00:26 Musk's controversial remarks were made during an interaction at the New York Times Deal Book
00:30 Summit. He directly addressed advertisers hurling expletives at them. Musk's comments
00:36 were in response to Disney CEO Bob Iger, who had stated that the association with X was no
00:41 longer positive for his company. Iger remarked, and I quote, "We know that Elon Musk is larger
00:46 than life in many respects and that his name is very much connected to the companies he founded
00:51 or owns. By him taking the position he took in a public manner, we felt that the association was
00:56 not necessarily a positive one for us." Musk continued to express his disdain for the
01:02 advertising boycott, stating, and I quote, "Look what this advertising boycott is going to do.
01:07 It's going to kill the company, and the whole world will know that those advertisers killed
01:11 the company." This controversy began earlier this month when Musk agreed with a post that
01:21 contained anti-Semitic content. The post claimed that Jewish people have a dialectical hatred of
01:27 white people, a viewpoint widely associated with white supremacist conspiracy theorists.
01:32 The response from the Joe Biden-led White House was swift, condemning Musk's actions as an
01:37 abhorrent promotion of anti-Semitic and racist hate. In an unexpected twist, Musk expressed
01:43 regret for his reaction to the controversial post. Musk went on to call his response one of the most
01:48 foolish, if not the most foolish thing he has ever done on the platform.
01:52 The fallout from this controversy continues to grow, with a list of major companies including
02:00 Disney, IBM, Apple, Comcast, Lionsgate, NBCUniversal, Paramount, and Warner Bros. now
02:06 pulling their advertising from X. The future of the platform remains uncertain, as Musk's remarks
02:12 and the subsequent boycott send shockwaves through the business and tech communities.
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