Re: apple resumes advertising on x

On 2025-02-13 14:33, badgolferman wrote:

Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:

On 2025-02-13 14:09, badgolferman wrote:

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
November 2023 following controversial remarks made by its owner Elon Musk.
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Apple is one of many major brands that have paused advertising on X at
least once, with others including Disney, Coca-Cola, Sony, IBM, Comcast,
and more. Disney and many other brands have cautiously returned to
advertising on the platform since.
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Musk acquired Twitter in 2022, and rebranded the platform as X the
following year. Under his ownership, X has taken a softer approach to
content moderation, allowing extremist views to proliferate on the
platform. Also, disgraced rapper Kanye West made a series of racist and
sexist posts on X last week, before deactivating his account.
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Apple's CEO Tim Cook, and other senior executives at the company like
marketing chief Greg Joswiak, have maintained a presence on
Twitter-turned-X ever since Musk acquired the platform.
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https://www.macrumors.com/2025/02/12/apple-resumes-advertising-on-x/

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Yup.
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That's how the descent into a dictatorship begins...
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 Explain.
 

Apple is kowtowing to Musk because he is in a position to do them harm.
See if you can figure the rest out on your own.