Elon Musk on Thursday referred to as for the firing of Bob Iger, escalating his assaults on the Disney CEO over the leisure firm’s resolution to briefly droop promoting on X, previously Twitter, over an antisemitic publish by the tech billionaire.

Final month, Musk appeared to endorse a publish saying Jews are “pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.”

Musk replied to the publish, writing: “You have said the actual truth.”

Musk has since apologized and walked again that assertion, which prompted an promoting boycott in opposition to X, conceding it was “one of the most foolish if not the most foolish” posts he’s made on the platform throughout an look at The New York Occasions’ DealBook Summit. Nonetheless, throughout the identical interview, he went on to name out the businesses who took motion over his publish, saying their actions may “kill the company,” earlier than singling out the Disney CEO.

“If somebody’s going to try and blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money, go fuck yourself,” Musk stated. “Go. Fuck. Yourself.”

And it seems he’s not achieved taking it out on Iger.

In a brand new publish on Thursday, Musk went after Iger over Disney’s promoting relationship with Meta, citing a CNBC report a few lawsuit the New Mexico legal professional normal introduced in opposition to Fb and Instagram, accusing the businesses of enabling youngster intercourse abuse.

“Bob Eiger thinks it’s cool to advertise next to child exploitation material,” Musk wrote, misspelling Iger’s final title. “Real stand up guy.”

Almost an hour later, he referred to as for Iger’s ouster in one other publish.

“He should be fired immediately. Walt Disney is turning in his grave over what Bob has done to his company,” Musk added.

Iger has up to now not commented on Musk’s posts.

Throughout an interview on the DealBook Summit, Iger defined the reasoning behind briefly pulling promoting from X.

“We know that Elon is larger than life in many respects and that his name is very much connected to the companies he founded or owns,” Iger stated. “By him taking the place he took in a public method, we felt that the affiliation was not essentially a optimistic one for us.

Aside from Disney, different main corporations additionally pulled advertisements from X, together with Apple, IBM, Lionsgate and Paramount International, in response to Musk’s publish.

The New York Occasions reported X is anticipated to lose practically $75 million in promoting income by the tip of this month, citing inner paperwork.

This isn’t the primary time Musk has moved to struggle criticism about his firm.

Final month, he sued the watchdog group Media Issues for America after the nonprofit revealed advertisements for main manufacturers appeared alongside X posts condoning Nazism.