A year ago, Elon Musk told finger-wagging woke corporations to buzz off (well, not exactly in those words). Now, he is riding high as President-elect Donald Trump’s sidekick, and those big-brand advertisers who tried to play their “unacceptable hate” games by leaving X are making their way back to the wildly popular social media platform, out of need if not desire.
It was an orchestrated cancel campaign instantly recognizable to anyone who has been paying attention to progressive establishment tactics for the past 16-odd years. In March 2023, thoroughly discredited activist organization the Anti-Defamation League posted a report accusing X of refusing to take action against dangerous hate speech. In November of that year, Musk clumsily got himself entangled in an anti-Semitism imbroglio over a post on the site that his political and big-media…
