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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9749389

Tesla has removed Disney+ from some of its vehicles amid Elon Musk having an online fight with Disney CEO Bob Iger. The fight started when Disney halted its advertising on X after Musk agreed with and amplified antisemitic content, for which he eventually apologized.

Every week, there’s a new drama with Elon Musk on X, formerly known as Twitter. It sometimes indirectly affects Tesla, but this time, it affects it directly.

The current drama stems from Musk giving support to an antisemitic post on X, which he didn’t initially apologize for, though admitted that it was a mistake a week later. He further apologized but was already attacking Disney. In the meantime, the result was a massive backlash, where many companies stopped advertising on X, including Apple and Disney.

Musk took a particular issue with frequent right-wing target Disney – in the interview when he apologized for the tweet, he attacked advertisers for pulling out almost in the same breath.

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[-] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago

Apparently he removed it only from vehicles who have never accessed the app.

I mean…. Why the fuck are we watching movies whist motoring, to begin with? Remove Disney+, fine. But remove them all. Also, how fucking petty are we that we are removing an app from my vehicle’s infotainment whatever?

This is not quite the shittiest timeline, but its pretty fucking close to it.

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