WSJ: “.. an extraordinary pressure campaign that Musk and X CEO Linda Yaccarino launched to boost revenue by cajoling advertisers—including Amazon, Unilever, Pinterest and Lego—to spend money on their platform.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/business/med... - ThreadSky

carlquintanilla.bsky.social • 15 days ago

WSJ: “.. an extraordinary pressure campaign that Musk and X CEO Linda Yaccarino launched to boost revenue by cajoling advertisers—including Amazon, Unilever, Pinterest and Lego—to spend money on their platform.”

@wsj.com
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/x-twitter-ad-revenue-campaign-lawsuit-a882b5c6

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rmwkenpo.bsky.social•14 days ago

And now he’s on an island. They should laugh in his face.

maybellemabel.bsky.social•14 days ago

Poor little X, the only one of his companies that isn’t on our government’s tit. Marketing & sales are hard for shitty product

jokadhd.bsky.social•15 days ago

Ww3 will be fast and it will be against America by everyone and also Americans because fuck americans

nonyabidniss.bsky.social•14 days ago

Just doing what Trump does, e.g., suing media companies, using DOJ against universities, etc. It's a small step from him doing it to billionaires doing it. Trump demo'd gangster rule and they took the lesson.

karenmhj.bsky.social•14 days ago

Free Markets, baby!

dollyllama.bsky.social•15 days ago

Didn't he say "Fuck you" to the advertisers? Didn't he say he didn't need them?
Didn't he say the "Earth will let them know"?

elonstench.bsky.social•14 days ago

No, he said "Go fuck yourself."

balme.bsky.social•14 days ago

Yep and now he’s mad about the consequences of his own actions

elonstench.bsky.social•14 days ago

But, like any halfwit child, he doesn't even understand that he did this to himself.

balme.bsky.social•14 days ago

He’s surrounded by suck ups who only tell him how smart he is and it has rotten his brain. Like a raw hamburger patty sitting on a street in New York City during an August heat wave.

hunny-bunn.bsky.social•15 days ago

Exhibit A in court.
🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭

brendanamartin.bsky.social•15 days ago

Extortion is not “cajoling”.

dfs4114.bsky.social•15 days ago

Didn't they try this before?

michaelmccarthy92.bsky.social•15 days ago

Might go their way under this current administration.

senorsabelotodo.bsky.social•15 days ago

Fascists gonna fascist.

iluvpolitix.bsky.social•15 days ago

Cajoling, or threatening to sue?

spfhockeyfan.bsky.social•14 days ago

“Cajoling” wtf

mavibluecatte.bsky.social•15 days ago

someone should remind the apartheid nazi pussy boy bitch that free market means exactly that

dave4141.bsky.social•15 days ago

Carl, will you let Andrew know-no more vacations…Joe is a PITA. I’m tired of the pro trump BS!

confusedpenguin.bsky.social•14 days ago

Wait... Again?

davidlublin.bsky.social•15 days ago

Loser behavior.

hangten500.bsky.social•15 days ago

Give us business or we’ll sue. Linda is a weak leader and Elon is a drugged up lunatic.

jungo81.bsky.social•15 days ago

Thats why its always going to be fuck Musk…always looking for handouts

indnial.bsky.social•15 days ago

Anyone have a free link?

peachycheryl.bsky.social•14 days ago

Free link👇.
Wish I could say I was surprised at the corporate cowardice.
So many quietly bent a knee to Musk’s mafia tactics and resumed advertising on his Nazi supporting “X”. Great source on companies we can boycott, tho.
https://archive.ph/glCE5

dailytrix.bsky.social•15 days ago

"If you mention extortion again, I'll have your legs broken."

bcarreiro.bsky.social•15 days ago

Way to go, WSJ. Didn't Twitter announce they were doing this months ago? And now, only after Elmo has fallen out of favor, you got something? Good jorb

balme.bsky.social•14 days ago

💯

gotaklew.bsky.social•15 days ago

Same advertises Elon told to "F themselves" at an interview? I'm sure they are beating down his door for ad space now! 🤡🤣

gnarlygale.bsky.social•15 days ago

because “free” markets

onionamber.bsky.social•14 days ago

Never negotiate with terrorists

joedavis72.bsky.social•15 days ago

I would comply and run ads telling my customers that Elon Musk is a piece of shit.

realworldrj.bsky.social•15 days ago

Seen this movie before. Folks, we are stumbling into fascism. Wake up ffs

There’s a headline from the 1930s for every single thing that’s happening here today

gary-character.bsky.social•15 days ago

The US isn't stumbling into fascism. It's been proudly marching that way for a while, and now it's finishing putting up it's flags.

recombobulating.bsky.social•14 days ago

The singular royal we is turning to fascism because it requires everyone to agree with it at all times.

But that's never actually everyone.

deegee101.bsky.social•14 days ago

Look where "it's cheaper to pay them off than to fight them in court" has taken us.

childlessdiglady.bsky.social•15 days ago

Life is better off Xwitter (pronounced shitter). 😂

teslatakedownsm.bsky.social•15 days ago

This is why the Musk/Trump quarrel can’t last. Oligarch Musk’s new business model is extortion, which depends on the continued assent of the sovereign.

jefzav.bsky.social•14 days ago

Nobody HAS TO buy anything from anybody. The constitutional right of freedom of association says so. I get to choose not to buy from you if you're an idiotic megalomaniac like Musk, or for any other reason. Also, if consumption is coerced, it's not a free market.

quacks-anonymous.bsky.social•15 days ago

emm7elle.bsky.social•14 days ago

All I hear is that Musk is desperate.

lhjh.bsky.social•15 days ago

"sure - if you can ensure that my ad won't appear next to any racist/antisemitic/Islamophobic/homophobic/transphobic tweets that don't align with our company's values"

diamondmike.bsky.social•15 days ago

Not sure how that’s supposed to work

thegoonkills.bsky.social•15 days ago

“Go fuck yourself.” —Elon, to advertisers

So how is Twitter entitled to their money exactly?

Sounds like a short court case.

jcmedia1.bsky.social•15 days ago

How TF is that going to work?

ab9rf.bsky.social•15 days ago

there are no small number of businesses whose entire revenue model is "file mostly baseless lawsuits against people who can't afford to defend them and offer to settle them"

look up the "SAD Scheme" sometime; IP trolls use this on a daily basis to extort money out of small-scale merchants

jcmedia1.bsky.social•15 days ago

True. But none of the companies listed fall under that category.
Particularly, Verizon. Apparently, they've already capitulated.

ab9rf.bsky.social•14 days ago

musk is just using the same strategy on a larger scale, relying on the fact that he's already rich and has lawyers that will do the dirty for him

faustbot.bsky.social•14 days ago

Musk has stated he believes he's the world's main character and everyone else is an NPC, which is a glowing red flag for sociopathy. This is completely in line with that line of belief.

hexagonal.bsky.social•15 days ago

All of Musk's businesses "success" comes from just mooching off the government. He's a massive welfare queen used to be able to to just take people's tax dollars and can't understand the concept of a business that has voluntary customers that aren't forced by law to pay him.

karenmhj.bsky.social•14 days ago

Just like all of *their* supporters are paid by putin, so they can't understand that *we* would support anyone/thing for free - and boycott, march, vote, rally, etc.

ericlackner.bsky.social•14 days ago

Unfortunately, these spineless companies appear to be giving in. Just like those law firms did with Trump

rayllainq.bsky.social•15 days ago

So, mobster methods are legal now?

bumborassclth.bsky.social•14 days ago

I don’t have a subscription nor am I interested in one, Carl. Did it work?

balrogmidgar.bsky.social•14 days ago

I'm having deja vu. Did they not already try some stunt like this in the past, or have they just been talking about it this whole time?

veggiemom3.bsky.social•14 days ago

I keep checking the date for this to be some kind of small update to an old original, or for a quickly edited new date to an old article for a shit post. But no, it's apparently new and real 🫤. We need to add this double take reaction to the standard reply emojis somehow atp, I'm with you!

extantcadence.bsky.social•14 days ago

Yeah, soon after Musk bought Twitter, advertisers were bailing and he threatened them with legal action over it. Not sure how he thinks that'll somehow work now.

mediumvillain.bsky.social•14 days ago

bc these companies are all run by pathetic bootlicking elitist cowards with shared interests

depressionmeals.bsky.social•14 days ago

“This type of activity may be common on Nanjing Road in China, but absolutely not at all common on Madison Avenue,”

jsharkey67.bsky.social•15 days ago

"Cajole" is a very different action than bringing lawsuits is.

jebnc.bsky.social•15 days ago

The media seems to have forgotten about all the “free speech” warriors who they promoted who could care less about free speech

we-are-toast.bsky.social•15 days ago

riz4robot.bsky.social•15 days ago

typical Nazi behavior

sh-berkhamsted.bsky.social•14 days ago

Hard to credit that "X" can not bear the idea that advertisers have a choice.

mikapeltokorpi.bsky.social•14 days ago

Pro tip: do not have any business with any company affiliated to Musk. Less headache.

#Tesla #Boring #SpaceX #Twitter #Neuralink #xAI

majatek.bsky.social•15 days ago

And it only took Elon Musk 8 months from saying "go fuck yourself" at advertisers taking their business elsewhere, to showing just how "free" the "free market" truly is - and by "free" I mean "whoever has the money to batter their opponents into submission".

The one time I hope the advertisers win.

aintmisbehavin.bsky.social•14 days ago

Frivolous lawsuit

tancred1098.bsky.social•14 days ago

All the "free market" right wingers praising this is hilarious.

alherix.bsky.social•14 days ago

Seems you can coordinate buying ads but to coordinate boycotts is not allowed. Please tell me what is the difference

nobodylikedit.bsky.social•14 days ago

One puts money in his pocket. He's not so down with the other one, though he did tell them to f*ck themselves. So to quote an old adage to him, "You reap what you sow."

ravenna321.bsky.social•15 days ago

Capitalism through coercion, why not?

judetd.bsky.social•15 days ago

Taking extortion lessons from his ex.

cjn1920.bsky.social•15 days ago

Seems like an effective tactic…if you want to display weakness.

mhaight22.bsky.social•15 days ago

Why would you spend money to advertise on a platform that fewer and fewer actual consumers use? Didn’t realize bots buy stuff.

mmmvegas.bsky.social•15 days ago

Pressuring your customers is a novel long-term business strategy.
Let’s see how this works out.

avirginian1.bsky.social•15 days ago

The free speech absolutist is bullying companies to give him money? Musk is trash.

ewokspear.bsky.social•15 days ago

Just the dumbest timeline possible.....so far!

dave-the-wave.bsky.social•15 days ago

There’s no greater crime than withholding money from Musk.

#TeslaTakedown #MuskMustFall #BoycottTesla

donnakassin.bsky.social•14 days ago

Just a genius move! 🤡
Harvard Business School needs to update their Strategic Financial Planning curriculum based on the M.O. of the richest man on the planet.

#ElonMusk #BullyTactics #MobsterMoves #MalignantNarcissist #KetamineAddict

mazterofpuppetz.bsky.social•15 days ago

Why would anyone want their ads next to Nazi posts?

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