8 posts tagged ‘linda yaccarino’
The biggest pop culture news stories of 2023
AV Club,
What a year, huh? It feels like we’ve been saying that since March (in the spirit of a 30 Rock meme) but, finally, the expression is earned. Every year is weird at this point; they have been since at least 2020, and you could make the case the weirdness started even earlier. Maybe life itself is weird. It probably is. Read more...
Magical thinking: revenue isn't down because X didn't exist last year
Boing Boing,
Last year, it was Twitter; now it sucks even more! It seems that Xitter CEO Linda Yaccarino's magic is rubbing off on her underlings, one of whom pretty much repeats her magical thinking about the business word for word. Remember when, among many other embarrassing moments, CEO Yaccarino used one of the worst branding exercises in history to deny having worked at Twitter? — Read the rest
Paris Hilton joins brand exodus from Twitter/X, halts advertising
Paris Hilton is the latest famous name to join the mass brand exodus from Twitter/X. Following Apple, Disney, Comcast, IBM, Warner Bros., Paramount, and Lionsgate's departure from the platform, Hilton's 11:11 Media announced it was halting advertising on the platform. "11:11 Media made the decision to immediately pull the campaign from the platform," Bruce Gersh, 11:11 Media's president and chief operating officer, told CNN. — Read the rest
Neil Young is boycotting Twitter/X
Neil Young just wants to keep rockin’ in a free world. Last year, the prolific folk artist made headlines for pulling his music off Spotify in protest of the streamer platforming Joe Rogan and his anti-vaccination rhetoric. Now, Young is also retracting his business from Twitter/X in protest of (who else) Elon Musk. Read more...
Elon Musk Blames Reporters for Fleeing Advertisers, Not His Tweets on Jews
Gizmodo,
In a lawsuit filed Monday night, Elon Musk’s X is alleging a report on content moderation from Media Matters maliciously scared off advertisers like Apple and IBM. Last week, the media watchdog reported advertisements from major brands were appearing next to antisemitic content on the platform. But Musk may have… Read more...
Disney, Apple, and more suspend Twitter ads amid Elon Musk antisemitism scandal
Several of the biggest companies on the planet—including Disney and Apple, plus Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes studio Lionsgate—have suspended ads on the social networking service we’ll just go ahead and keep calling Twitter today. This comes after the company’s owner, Elon Musk, made a post on Wednesday in which he… Read more...
Apple to pause advertising on X after Musk endorses antisemitic post
TechCrunch,
One of X’s key advertisers, Apple, will pause its advertising on the platform, according to a report from Axios. Apple follows in the footsteps of advertisers like IBM and the European Commission, who have suspended ads on X amid increased on-platform antisemitism. Per research from the Center for Countering Digital Hate, X has failed to […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Elon Musk Shares His Thoughts on Jews
For years, some people with the unlucky habit of paying too much attention to Elon Musk have complained the man is a racist. He’s posted countless dog whistles, liked disturbing tweets, and used his platform to boost white nationalists, but he’s always managed to walk right up to the line of plausible deniability. But… Read more...