Elon Musk instructed CNBC’s David Faber on Tuesday that he isn’t going to care if his inflammatory tweets scare advertisers away from Twitter.
“I am going to say what I want, and if the consequence of that is losing cash, so be it,” claimed Musk, who owns Twitter.
Musk replied defensively as Faber pressed him around a tweet Monday night in which he likened liberal billionaire and Democratic donor George Soros to X-Adult men villain Magneto, a Jewish Holocaust survivor. Musk has earlier criticized Soros, as well.
“He would like to erode the quite material of civilization. Soros hates humanity,” Musk tweeted Monday.
Soros, who is also Jewish, is a favorite concentrate on of ideal wing pundits and politicians and usually the subject of anti-Semitic assaults. Soros Fund Administration also lately slice its stake in Tesla.
“I’m a pro-Semite, if anything at all,” Musk stated when Faber asked him about the criticism the Tesla CEO confronted around his Soros tweets.
For several years, Musk has tweeted controversial objects, like conspiracy theories and responses his critics have termed broadly discriminatory.
Considering that he took more than Twitter final tumble, Twitter has experienced a sharp decrease in promoting income. Final 7 days, Musk hired previous NBCUniversal advertising and marketing chief to substitute him as Twitter’s CEO, a go commonly found as a way to jumpstart Twitter’s ad small business. She commenced Sunday.
–CNBC’s Lora Kolodny contributed to this report.
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