Elon Musk has hit out at “fake media stories” claiming he is antisemitic after he endorsed a tweet insulting Jews last week.
The billionaire’s defensive statement follows a tumultuous week in which several major companies pulled ads from X denouncing the antisemitism they said he allowed to spread on social media platforms.
“This past week, there have been hundreds of fake media stories claiming that I am antisemitic,” Musk said posted Sunday on his social media platform, X.
“Nothing could be further from the truth,” he said.
“I wish only the best for humanity and a prosperous and exciting future for all,” he added in the post.
The world’s richest man found himself in hot water last week after he tweeted that a user was speaking the “real truth” in response to a post claiming, “The Jewish community has rejected the exact kind of dialectical hatred against white people that they claim to want people stop using against them.”
Elon Musk said Sunday “nothing could be further from the truth” in response to allegations of antisemitism. Getty Images Musk sparked outrage after he agreed with a user post.
The user’s tweet also claimed that Jews support “minority hordes” immigrating to the US.
Hours after his apparent endorsement sparked online outrage, Musk walked back and qualified that he didn’t believe hatred of white people extended “to the entire Jewish community.”
Musk later went after the Anti-Defamation League, which he has blamed for causing a reported 60% drop in X’s ad revenue through its campaign to moderate hate speech.
He posted in the same thread that the organization “unfairly attacks the majority of the West” despite supporting Israel and Jews.
“This is because they cannot, according to their own principles, criticize the minority group that is their main threat. It is not right and needs to stop,” he tweeted.
Musk also attacked the ADL in a tirade on X last Wednesday. The White House condemned Musk’s confirmation of the antisemitic tweet. via REUTERS
The CEOs of Tesla and SpaceX also accused the ADL of trying to shut down the website formerly known as Twitter and threatened to sue the league for “falsely accusing him and me of being antisemitic.”
White House spokesman Andrew Bates condemned Musk, and said the Biden administration condemned “this promotion of antisemitic and disgusting racism in the strongest terms, which goes against our core values as Americans.”
“It is unacceptable to repeat the horrific lies behind the deadliest act of Antisemitism in American history at any time, let alone one month after the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust,” Bates said.
Amidst the drama, Apple announced it was pulling ads from Musk’s X after reports found that its ads were placed alongside far-right content.
Elon Musk blasted “fake media stories” claiming antisemitism on Saturday.
Disney, film company Lionsgate and tech giant IBM also pulled their ads from social media sites after Media Matters, a liberal watchdog group, reported that their ads were placed next to content promoting Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party on X.
X said its system does not intentionally place brands “actively next to this type of content,” and content cited by Media Matters will no longer be able to monetize its posts.
A number of Jewish leaders called on other companies to stop advertising on X following the publication of the report.
Musk, in response, vowed to file a “thermonuclear lawsuit against Media Matters and ALL those complicit in this fraudulent attack on our company.”
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