“A lawyer at promoting conglomerate Interpublic Group fielded a cellphone name in December from a lawyer at X. The message was clear: Get your purchasers to spend extra on Elon Musk’s social-media platform, or else,” the Wall Road Journal stories.
“Interpublic leaders interpreted the communications from X as reminders that the lately introduced $13 billion deal to merge Interpublic with rival Omnicom Group could possibly be torpedoed, or a minimum of slowed down, by the Trump administration, given Musk’s highly effective function within the federal authorities.”
Peter Kafka: “A giant media platform, whose proprietor is deeply enmeshed with the Trump administration, is — reportedly — telling firms to provide it enterprise, or threat authorities reprisal…”
