Advertisers Say They Do Not Plan to Return to X After Musk’s Comments

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Elon Musk, the owner of X, criticized advertisers with expletives on Wednesday at The New York Times’s DealBook Summit.

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Twitter was at the heart of the Arab Spring uprising a few years ago. Letting people under your control communicate with each other quickly and concisely does not work well for dictators. The Saudis are dictators who want to control the people under them.

For them, 20 billion spent on some stupid revenge. Porn doesn't really make an impact. On the bottom line.

Hold up, what does SA have to do with musk buying Twitter? Did they actually pay him?

Saudis ‘second largest investors’ in Twitter after Musk takeover

"Kingdom Holding Company and the private office of Prince Alwaleed bin Talal will maintain their stake in Twitter after Musk took control of the social media company."