Elon Musk an avid user of Twitter
Elon Musk, the mercurial billionaire businessman, has had yet another “now he shows his true colors” moment when it comes to anti-Semitism. The founder of Tesla and owner of Twitter sparked an uproar over his comments “liking,” or in agreement with, a highly anti-Semitic post on Twitter.
This comes against the backdrop of Twitter’s failure to curtail the hateful and false claims about Israel that have proliferated on the social media platform since the start of the war in Gaza, as well as the rise in outright anti-Semitic activities around the world.
“Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.
“I’m deeply disinterested in giving the tiniest shit now about western Jewish populations coming to the disturbing realization that those hordes of minorities that support flooding their country don’t exactly like them too much.”
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“You have said the actual truth,” Elon Musk
CNN correspondent Jake Tapper reposted the feed on his Twitter account commenting, “Elon Musk pushing unvarnished anti semitism at a time of rising antisemitism and violence against Jews.”
Conservative writer Jon Podhoretz did as well with a one word comment, “Unmusked.”
This is only the latest example of Elon Musk’s bias.
Just a few weeks ago he pledged to step in and offer internet services to Gaza from Starlink, which will help the terror group Hamas continue with its killing of innocent civilians. The pledge came after Israel cut off internet and other communications services in Gaza in order to disrupt Hamas terrorist activities.
And in October Thierry Breton, the European commissioner for the internal market, sent Elon Musk’s Twitter a cease and desist order demanding the company remove misleading propaganda and false reports about what is going on right now in Gaza from its service or face sanctions within the EU.
Elon Musk notoriously removed many restrictions that Twitter held regarding the prohibition of fake news reports and hate speech on the social media service after he bought the company in 2020 for $44 billion. But now he allows Hamas to spread disinformation and show heinous videos of their victims being torn apart.
In September Jewish leaders from around the world signed on to an open letter condemning Musk for allowing the proliferation of antisemitism on Twitter. The group calls itself “X Out Hate.”
That came after Elon Musk went after the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). Musk said in September he might sue the organization because… well because he is not all there. Specifically, Musk is accused the ADL of causing his Twitter to lose advertising money because the group has been protesting the social media for allowing the proliferation of anti-Semitic and racist posts.
Elon Musk charged that the ADL is “trying to kill this platform by falsely accusing it & me of being anti-Semitic.” He also alleged that Twitter’s US advertising revenue is down 60%, “primarily due to pressure on advertisers by @ADL (that’s what advertisers tell us), so they almost succeeded in killing X/Twitter!”
“The ADL, because they are so aggressive in their demands to ban social media accounts for even minor infractions, are ironically the biggest generators of anti-Semitism on this platform!” charged Elon Musk.
