Elon Musk told advertisers who suspended ad buys on his social media platform X to “go f–k yourself” Wednesday, marking a heated development in the ongoing fallout from an antisemitic tweet he endorsed earlier this month.
The tech mogul and X owner also apologized for the antisemitic tweet during the New York Times DealBook summit, saying that he “handed a loaded gun to those who hate me, and arguably to those who are antisemitic. For that I’m quite sorry. That was not my intention.”
“I should in retrospect not have replied to that particular post,” he continued.
Musk added that his recent trip to Israel and meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not “an apology tour” for the post and other widely publicized instances of antisemitism at X.