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Elon Musk went to advertisers on Wednesday to try to put his incendiary remarks in November in a wider context, in case they thought when he told them to “Go f— yourself” that he meant “Go f— yourself.” He had also told companies that had stopped buying ads on X not to advertise anymore if that’s the way they felt. The suspensions had begun in response to reports that X was putting ads for mainstream brands next to pro-Nazi and white nationalist content on its platform. His outburst was about free speech and “wasn’t to advertisers as a whole,” Musk said at the Cannes Lions advertising fest…