In a lengthy post on X, billionaire investor Bill Ackman laid out his view that "Earth is fortunate" Elon Musk owns the platform once called Twitter.

Advertisers from Apple to Walt Disney have suspended or halted spending on X after its billionaire owner asserted Jewish people “hate” white people.

Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman defended Elon Musk after major advertisers pulled ads from social media site X over antisemitic commentary. Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman defended Elon Musk after major advertisers pulled ads from social media site X over antisemitic commentary.

"Musk is not perfect, but the world is a vastly better place because of him," Ackman wrote of his fellow billionaire on X.

Twitter/X owner Elon Musk also admitted he was unhappy, which you'd think would prompt him to reevaluate his life a bit. Credit: Michael M. Santiago / Even so, Musk still has not deleted his response two weeks later,

With Twitter losing advertisers left and right because of Elon Musk’s tweets, contrition from the billionaire would have been expected. Yet on stage at an event in New York this week, he was anything but.

Musk said he is against antisemitism and anything that 'promotes hate and conflict'.

Elon Musk has told advertisers to “go f*** yourselves” if they try to pull marketing from X. The chief executive of the platform, formerly known as Twitter, suggested that companies were attempting to “blackmail” him by threatening to pull ads.