Elon Musk is on a bit of an apology tour regarding his “go f*ck yourself” comments in November regarding advertisers on X.
While at the Cannes Lions advertising festival on Wednesday, Musk said of his comments, “It wasn’t to advertisers as a whole,” The Hill reported.
“It was with respect to freedom of speech,” he added. “I think it is important to have a global free speech platform, where people from a wide range of opinions can voice their views.”
Musk initially told off advertisers last fall after he appeared to agree with anti-Semitic rhetoric in a post from his personal X account.
“Jewish communties (sic) have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them,” the post said on X, which Musk replied to, saying, “You have said the actual truth.”
Musk addressed the post and apologized for what he …