Elon Musk laid out additional of his options for Twitter in a publicly broadcast conference Wednesday, assuring advertisers he had noted their problems about detest speech and misinformation on the website while indicating the system would continue on modifying fast and that some of its new features would fall short.
Twitter advertisers say they’re worried about Elon Musk’s tweets and actions
Elon Musk held a giant conference call for advertisers and more than 100,000 other people Wednesday. He sounded thoughtful about his plans for Twitter, unsure about how it was all going to work out, but solicitous of feedback. “I only got the keys to the building last Friday,” he said, adding later: “I’m open to ideas.”
The problem for Musk is the advertisers he has spooked since buying Twitter for $44 billion are unlikely to be swayed by any of this. They tell me they don’t mind what Musk says in outreach calls like this. They’re concerned about what he does and what he tweets.
Those concerns are going to mount. A day after Musk hosted his call for advertisers, the two executives that accompanied him on that call and on a similar call a week earlier — Robin Wheeler, his head of ad sales, and Yoel Roth, his head
