{"id":144,"date":"2023-11-30T07:40:58","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T07:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alnasnews.com.jo\/en\/?p=144"},"modified":"2023-11-30T07:40:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T07:40:58","slug":"musk-regrets-controversial-post-but-wont-bow-to-advertiser-blackmail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alnasnews.com.jo\/en\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"Musk regrets controversial post but won\u2019t bow to advertiser \u2018blackmail\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-highlight\">\n<ul>\n<li>The remark before corporate executives at the New York Times\u2019 Dealbook conference drew a shocked silence<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/2417676\/world\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p data-gtm-vis-recent-on-screen109681369_148=\"468890\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen109681369_148=\"468890\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time109681369_148=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired109681369_148=\"1\">NEW YORK: Elon Musk apologized Wednesday for endorsing a social media post widely seen as anti-Semitic, but accused advertisers who are turning away from his social media platform X of \u201cblackmail\u201d and said anyone who does so can \u201cgo f*** yourself.\u201d<br \/>\nThe remark before corporate executives at the New York Times\u2019 Dealbook conference drew a shocked silence.<br \/>\nEarlier, Musk had apologized for what he called \u201cliterally the worst and dumbest post that I\u2019ve ever done.\u201d<br \/>\nIn a comment on X, formerly Twitter, Musk on November 15 called a post \u201cthe actual truth\u201d that said Jewish communities advocated a \u201cdialectical hatred against whites,\u201d which was criticized as echoing longtime conspiracy theory among White supremacists.<br \/>\nThe statement prompted a flood of departures from X of major advertisers, including Apple, Disney, Comcast and IBM who criticized Musk for anti-semitism.<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019m sorry for that tweet or post,\u201d Musk said Wednesday. \u201cIt was foolish of me.\u201d<br \/>\nHe told interviewer Andrew Ross Sorkin that his post had been misinterpreted and that he had sought to clarify the remark in subsequent posts to the thread.<br \/>\nBut Musk also said he wouldn\u2019t be beholden to pressure from advertisers.<br \/>\n\u201cIf somebody\u2019s gonna try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money?\u201d Musk said. \u201cGo f*** yourself.\u201d<br \/>\nBut the billionaire acknowledged that there were business implications to the advertiser actions.<br \/>\n\u201cIf the company fails&#8230; it will fail because of an advertiser boycott\u201d Musk said. \u201cAnd that will be what will bankrupt the company.\u201d<br \/>\nMusk, who met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a visit to Israel earlier this week, insisted in the interview that he holds no discrimination against Jews, calling himself \u201cphilo-Semitic,\u201d or an admirer of Judaism.<br \/>\nDuring the interview, Musk wore a necklace given to him by a parent of an Israeli hostage taken in the Hamas attack on October 7. The necklace reads, \u201cBring Them Home.\u201d<br \/>\nMusk told Sorkin that the Israel trip had been planned earlier and was not an \u201capology tour\u201d related to the controversial tweet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The remark before corporate executives at the New York Times\u2019 Dealbook conference drew a shocked silence NEW YORK: Elon Musk apologized Wednesday for endorsing a social media post widely seen as anti-Semitic, but accused advertisers who are turning away from his social media platform X of \u201cblackmail\u201d and said anyone who does so can \u201cgo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_analytify_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alnasnews.com.jo\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alnasnews.com.jo\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alnasnews.com.jo\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alnasnews.com.jo\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alnasnews.com.jo\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alnasnews.com.jo\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"https:\/\/alnasnews.com.jo\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alnasnews.com.jo\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alnasnews.com.jo\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alnasnews.com.jo\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alnasnews.com.jo\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}