{"id":12295,"date":"2023-11-19T08:37:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T07:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/19\/rows-and-rockets-blow-up-as-elon-musks-firms-endure-turbulent-weekend\/"},"modified":"2023-11-19T08:37:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T07:37:28","slug":"rows-and-rockets-blow-up-as-elon-musks-firms-endure-turbulent-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/19\/rows-and-rockets-blow-up-as-elon-musks-firms-endure-turbulent-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Rows and rockets blow up as Elon Musk\u2019s firms endure turbulent weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another space launch failed, but it\u2019s the loss of major advertisers on X that has enraged the tycoon<\/p>\n<p>It has been an explosive weekend for Elon Musk. The American billionaire has had to witness not only the public <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2023\/nov\/18\/elon-musk-spacex-loses-contact-with-starship-rocket-after-second-launch-attempt\" title=\"\">\u201crapid unscheduled disassembly\u201d of another of his rockets<\/a>, but also watch while a group of well-known global companies, including Apple, Disney and IBM, pulled advertising from X, his social media platform.<\/p>\n<p>The businesses, all of them household names, made the decision to stop spending on the site, formerly known as Twitter, after the American billionaire\u2019s public support for an antisemitic conspiracy theory. Last Wednesday, Musk replied to a conspiracy post which accused Jews of promoting hatred of white people, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/nov\/16\/elon-musk-antisemitic-tweet-adl\" title=\"\">noting that it was the \u201cactual truth\u201d<\/a>. He has since argued that his intended criticism was of specific campaign groups, such as the campaign group the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), and was not aimed at the wider Jewish community.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/nov\/19\/rows-and-rockets-blow-up-as-elon-musks-firms-endure-turbulent-weekend\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/79346f944afdcc435c463ad0e089ae0c38e170c9\/0_17_7187_4312\/master\/7187.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=0f6dedbeea39ad72626a4c0505c6bd6f\" title=\"Rows and rockets blow up as Elon Musk\u2019s firms endure turbulent weekend\" \/>Another space launch failed, but it\u2019s the loss of major advertisers on X that has enraged the tycoon<br \/>\nIt has been an explosive weekend for Elon Musk. The American billionaire has had to witness not only the public \u201crapid unscheduled disassembly\u201d of another of his rockets, but also watch while a group of well-known global companies, including Apple, Disney and IBM, pulled advertising from X, his social media platform.<br \/>\nThe businesses, all of them household names, made the decision to stop spending on the site, formerly known as Twitter, after the American billionaire\u2019s public support for an antisemitic conspiracy theory. Last Wednesday, Musk replied to a conspiracy post which accused Jews of promoting hatred of white people, noting that it was the \u201cactual truth\u201d. He has since argued that his intended criticism was of specific campaign groups, such as the campaign group the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), and was not aimed at the wider Jewish community. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another space launch failed, but it\u2019s the loss of major advertisers on X that has enraged the tycoon It has been an explosive weekend for Elon Musk. The American billionaire has had to witness not only the public \u201crapid unscheduled disassembly\u201d of another of his rockets, but also watch while a group of well-known global &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/19\/rows-and-rockets-blow-up-as-elon-musks-firms-endure-turbulent-weekend\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rows and rockets blow up as Elon Musk\u2019s firms endure turbulent weekend<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12295"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}