Social platform X is “barely breaking even,” proprietor Elon Musk emailed workers, the Wall Road Journal reported.
“Our consumer development is stagnant, income is unimpressive, and we’re barely breaking even,” Musk reportedly mentioned. In a narrative about banks getting ready to promote billions of {dollars} in debt borrowed by X, WSJ printed different components of the e-mail:
“Over the previous few months, we have witnessed the facility of X in shaping nationwide conversations and outcomes…We’re additionally seeing different platforms start to undertake our dedication to free speech and unbiased fact.”
The latter sentence refers to Meta, which is eradicating fact-checks in favor of group notes, which X already has.
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Elon Musk has denied penning this to employees, posting on X, “This report is fake. I despatched no such e mail. WSJ is mendacity.”
Since his takeover of then-Twitter in 2022, Mashable has reported that X’s consumer base has declined, fleeing for alternate options like Bluesky, particularly after the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Advertisers have been no totally different, with the development of firms eradicating adverts on X anticipated to proceed this 12 months.
The WSJ article said that Morgan Stanley bankers have reached out to traders forward of a $3 billion sale of debt it and different banks lent to X to finish Musk’s buyout in 2022. Traders have allegedly expressed curiosity in shopping for the debt as they see X’s monetary place on an “upward trajectory,” WSJ reported, doubtless due to Musk’s alliance with President Trump.
Musk has been within the information this week for different causes, together with his attendance at Trump’s inauguration on Monday and the “Roman salute” he gave throughout a speech.