Elon Musk’s New Uninvited Troubles. Social Media outlet owner, specially, should be impartial , he cannot take sides.
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and CTO of Twitter, has been facing backlash due to his endorsement of an antisemitic post. This has led to companies like IBM and the European Commission halting advertising on X, and Apple pausing ads on X. The White House has also criticized Musk for his remarks.
Musk has made a number of disturbing comments, including promoting a QA non conspiracy theory and antisemitism. He has quoted Nazis and had exchanges with avowed bigots4. He’s part of a campaign by far-right activists to bash the Anti-Defamation League, which has criticized him for permitting hate speech on the platform he owns
A group of 100 Jewish leaders, including some prominent rabbis and academics, released a public letter criticizing X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, and its owner Elon Musk for enabling a “new stage of antisemitic discourse”. They noted that antisemitic discourse has doubled on X
However, it’s important to note that not all posts attributed to Musk are authentic. For instance, Reuters found no evidence that Musk tweeted a post about “the woke left” and antisemitism including a RIP (“Rest in Peace”) reference to Jeffrey Epstein, despite a screenshot shared online.
