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Niléane Feb 13, 2025

You gotta be a real fucking nazi if you think now is a better time than a year ago to purchase ad space on Elon Musk’s X

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/02/12/apple-resumes-advertising-on-x/#:~:text=Apple%20this%20month%20started%20advertising%20on%20X%20for%20the%20first%20time%20in%20more%20than%20a%20year.%20The%20company%20had%20stopped%20advertising%20on%20the%20social%20media%20platform%20in%20November%202023%20following%20controversial%20remarks%20made%20by%20its%20owner%20Elon%20Musk.

Apple Resumes Advertising on X

Apple this month started advertising on X for the first time in more than a year. The company had stopped advertising on the social media platform in...

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Nicole Parsons

@nileane

Musk is suing people who refuse to use his platform for advertising.

It's yet another example of Coercive Capitalism turning into dictatorship.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2025/02/02/elon-musk-x-advertising-boycott-lawsuit/78157291007/

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/01/nx-s1-5283271/elon-musk-lawsuit-advertisers-boycott-new

https://apnews.com/article/x-sues-advertisers-unilever-cvs-mars-orsted-673d1ae88e9fb0ca5b170d238739453e

Elon Musk's X sues Lego, Shell, more companies over advertising 'boycott' from platform

The new complaint adds Nestlé, Abbott Laboratories, Colgate-Palmolive, Lego, Pinterest, Tyson Foods and Shell International to the list.

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Patrick McLaughlin Feb 14, 2025

@Npars01 @nileane

Hmmm.

If this insane set of lawsuits goes anywhere, those companies should limit their advertising to the most brutal anti-Mush, anti-Trump, anti-Tesla stuff they can muster.

If he rejects their ads, it’s not their fault that they’re not advertising on Twitter.

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Nicole Parsons Feb 14, 2025

@McPatrick @nileane

Ford and Toyota ads on Twitter about how dangerous Tesla's are: buy an EV from us instead!
Lol.

A Ford advertisement with lots and lots of video of Teslas on fire or in multi-car collisions...
https://autos.yahoo.com/report-tesla-cybertruck-17-times-130000384.html

https://www.yahoo.com/news/27-old-san-francisco-mans-134024386.html

Toyota advertising that NOT buying a Tesla, saves lives.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-30/tesla-battery-fire-fatal-crash-rescue

https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2024/12/31/cybertruck-catches-fire-dekalb-county-tesla-dealership/

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/man-dead-after-multi-vehicle-crash-in-sawtelle/

Report: Tesla Cybertruck 17 Times More Likely For Fire Fatalities Than Ford Pinto

In an explosive report, a group claims to have studied data related to Tesla Cybertruck crashes, concluding the EV is 17 times more likely for fire...

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