Major marketing executives, in a private email chain, discussed Twitter, Elon Musk and his “racist rhetoric,” according to a new report.
Ahead of a Musk appearance at a marketing conference in Miami later in April, the executives reportedly described worries about harmful speech on the platform and from the billionaire himself.
Diana Haussling, a vice president at the consumer products conglomerate Colgate-Palmolive, reportedly wrote to the group saying she is “both excited for the success of the conference while also mindful of the harmful and often racist rhetoric of Elon Musk.” “While I am a huge supporter of free speech and enterprise we can not ignore the impact of such hate speech. I especially can’t ignore it as a black woman,” she added.
Musk, in February, defended Scott Adams after the Pleasanton-based “Dilbert” creator went on a tirade in which he urged white people to “get the hell away from Black people” and labeled Black people a “hate group.” Musk
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