X expands lawsuit over advertiser ‘boycott’ to include Lego, Nestlé, Pinterest, and others | TechCrunch

[moe90@feddit.nl]

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[unpopularcrow@lemmy.world]

I’m honestly blown away that Nestle stopped or reduced advertising. It seems like twitter is exactly the home for such a terrible company.

[rhaedas@fedia.io]

Not if there's fewer there to see ads. They're still a business with a bottom line, even if what they do is terrible.

[viking@infosec.pub]

The company might be terrible, but most of their buyers are normal people who either don't know what brands belong to them, or don't care enough to carefully investigate everything they buy. And those normal people are the ones the ads need to reach. If the leave twitter, what's the point of advertising there?

[jeebaichow@lemmy.world]

Maybe asking advertisers to 'go fuck yourselves' isn't such a bright idea, fuckwit.

[unpopularcrow@lemmy.world]

Yea, fair point.

[xenomor@lemmy.world]

The lesson here is to never start advertising on that platform. You’re less likely to be sued by Musk if you never start advertising in the first place. Advertising on his platform is an unnecessary risk for your business:

[unpopularcrow@lemmy.world]

Yea, I think it makes sense for them to stop if they are getting a return on their investment.

[missingno@fedia.io]

All the defense has to do is play the clip of him openly telling advertisers not to advertise and he'll get laughed out of court.

[telorand@reddthat.com]

Preach. Never do business with a professional troll.

[joyfulcodingguy@lemmy.ml]

Link without the trackers attached to it: https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/01/x-expands-lawsuit-over-advertiser-boycott-to-include-lego-nestle-pinterest-and-others/

[plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works]

How is this even a thing? Is a bank run considered collusion? If the platform no longer offers the audience I want to reach then I should be able to stop advertising on it. It just happens that the audience of may companies at once left the company. Who is even entertaining this lawsuit?

[obviouslynotbanana@lemmy.world]

I didn't know Citizens United gave companies forced speech.

[aloafofbread@lemmy.ml]

Nestle has an extremely safe, risk-averse marketing strategy. In part due to their various scandals, they try really hard to be family friendly and boring.

That said, they are not worse than other food and beverage conglomerates.

1. child labor: mars & others were also implicated. These companies were most likely unaware of the child labor being used to harvest cocoa. The way it works is there are wholesalers in Africa who buy cocoa from processing facilities who buy fresh cocoa pods from local farms. These wholesalers advertised themselves as being child-labore-free. The farms they buy from were using child labor. This is a problem with capitalism exploiting people in the global south, causing perverse incentives, and with companies having limited insight into the full depth of their supply chains.

2. water is not a human right: The nestle water exec said the quiet part out loud. But, no beverage company believes water is a human right - they just aren't stupid enough to say that on camera. If they did think it was a human right, they'd be working to ensure universal access to clean water rather than bottling it and shipping it around the world while limiting water access at their extraction points and polluting the water near their factories. Look at what coca cola is doing in mexico - rampant water pollution such that in factory towns. Coke is the only safe drink for folks because the water is contaminated. Nestle is bad, but no worse than coca cola.

3. infant formula scandal: this occurred in the 1970s and was obviously awful. Every major multinational food and beverage conglomerate has stories like this if you look hard enough - this just happens to be a fucked up series of events that got some major media play.

People online scapegoat Nestle, but continue to buy electronics and clothing made with child labor, tree nuts/soda/and other products known to be harmful to watersheds, and many other products from companies which harm people in the global south. This isn't meant to defend nestle, but to remind everyone that there is no ethical consumption under capitalism. Nestle is not anywhere close to an uniquely evil company. Not even in its own industry.

[timewarp@lemmy.world]

Musk knows no bottom, cause he is the bottom.

[timewarp@lemmy.world]

Most politicians are bought for less than a million. The guy has hundreds of billions. I imagine he can buy a few judges along the way.

[excessshiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I'm torn about disliking this douchebag and liking that Nestlé is getting sued...

[knightonthesun@lemmy.world]

On the scale of who is fucking up the world more, I’d have to award the trophy to Leon. Certainly fuck Nestle, but won’t someone please rid us of this meddlesome billionaire?

[kokesh@lemmy.world]

He should sue everyone that left X!!

[shortstack@reddthat.com]

No better way to get people who used to voluntarily give you money to give you more money than threatening them.