X's Sales Pitch: Give Us Your Ad Business or We'll Sue
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#3I wonder if the additional ad revenue X gets by suing companies that aren't advertising with them will be enough to cover the expenses of suing companies that aren't advertising with them.
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#4Probably less worried about losing the suit than ending up like Harvard and Perkins Coïe. This is so hilariously like mob rule.
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#5"People close to X said the platform pressed vendors that were supplying it with goods or services to spend money on advertising. X is a customer of Amazon Web Services, its cloud-computing unit, and had past-due bills for that. X used those unpaid bills as leverage during negotiations, according to people familiar with the matter."
So Elon doesn't pay his bills either. Not surprising. I wish Amazon just cut services until bills paid, see who actually has leverage in that situation when nothing operates to run ads on and the cesspool can't spread.
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#6I wonder if the additional ad revenue X gets by suing companies that aren't advertising with them will be enough to cover the expenses of suing companies that aren't advertising with them.
Well, they’re hoping that all these companies just fold. Which, let’s face it, they might: companies aren’t at all known for bravery. Still, it probably would have been better for X to sue before Musk and Trump had their Very Public Breakup, since there would be that additional threat of government intervention.
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#7I wonder if the additional ad revenue X gets by suing companies that aren't advertising with them will be enough to cover the expenses of suing companies that aren't advertising with them.
Well, they’re hoping that all these companies just fold. Which, let’s face it, they might: companies aren’t at all known for bravery. Still, it probably would have been better for X to sue before Musk and Trump had their Very Public Breakup, since there would be that additional threat of government intervention.
Now that Musk has fallen out with Trump (if real) he can't rely on Trump's corruption to help him.
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#8According to Elon Musk: "Disney (...) are the world’s biggest example of go woke, go broke" Does this mean that there is legal precedent to force him and others to buy their new movies?
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#9After Musk's purchase of twitter, I recall Musk making claims that there was a lot of bot traffic, and the numbers that had been used for valuation purposes were inflated.
Even if companies weren't afraid of their brand being tainted by being shown alongside distasteful or offensive content, or by being on the platform of a highly divisive political figure who seems to create daily PR crises, isn't there still a basic question of "how many of the impressions that we buy are shown to actual humans?"
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#10Interesting move from such a self-proclaimed champion of meritocracy. Especially rich buddies helping push companies into capitulating.
> Activist investor Nelson Peltz, who has been a Unilever board member since 2022 and has had a close relationship with Musk, helped Unilever negotiate its deal