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A bit over a year ago, Elon Musk bought Twitter and on his first day in the office replaced all of the plumbing fixtures, which I'm told is an ancient Musk family tradition.

Its origins are lost to time.

That's not all he changed.

He changed the branding of the company to X, laid off 80% of the staff, replaced the content

moderation system with a crowdsourced community note system and added

paid verification checkmarks to replace the legacy system.

Musk reinstated a number of previously banned accounts and claimed to take a more free speech

approach on the platform, mostly only suspending accounts that

criticised or made fun of him personally.

On Wednesday this week, Musk lost his cool in an interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin,

who he calls Jonathan.

And Jonathan, like the only reason I'm here is because you were a friend.

I'm Andrew, but yeah, sorry, it's okay.

He said that the advertisers that stopped spending on the platform due to his endorsement

of an anti-Semitic post can fuck themselves.

Here's the clip. There was advertisers leaving.

We talked to Bob Eiger today. You hope they stop. You hope? Don't advertise. You don't want

them to advertise? No. What do you mean? If somebody's gonna try to blackmail me

with advertising, blackmail me with money? Go f*** yourself.

But go f*** yourself.

Is that clear?

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