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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
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Subject: Re: apple resumes advertising on x
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:15:18 -0800
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On 2025-02-13 15:51, badgolferman wrote:
> Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.macrumors.com/2025/02/12/apple-resumes-advertising-on-x/
>>>>
>>>> Yup.
>>>>
>>>> That's how the descent into a dictatorship begins...
>>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
> 
> You don’t think Apple wants all the advertising exposure they can get?
> There is a very large audience on X they can tap into.
Sure they do.

But if that's the case, why do you think they pulled their advertising 
in the first place?

And while you're thinking about that:

Do you think they'd be advertising on X again...

....if Biden had won the election?