Elon Musk blasted “bogus media tales” alleging he’s antisemitic after he endorsed a disparaging tweet about Jews final week.
The billionaire’s assertion of protection follows a turbulent week during which a number of main firms pulled adverts from X in condemnation of antisemitism they are saying he allowed to unfold on the social media platform.
“This previous week, there have been tons of of bogus media tales claiming that I’m antisemitic,” Musk posted Sunday on his social media platform, X.
“Nothing may very well be farther from the reality,” he declared.
“I want solely one of the best for humanity and a affluent and thrilling future for all,” he added within the publish.
The world’s richest man discovered himself in sizzling water final week after he tweeted {that a} person was talking “the precise reality” in response to a publish that claimed, “Jewish communities have been pushing the precise form of dialectical hatred towards whites that they declare to need folks to cease utilizing towards them.”
The person’s tweet additionally claimed that Jews supported “hordes of minorities” immigrating to the US.
Hours after his obvious settlement sparked outrage on-line, Musk walked again and certified that he doesn’t consider hatred of white folks extends “to all Jewish communities.”
Musk then went after the Anti-Defamation League, whom he has blamed for inflicting a reported 60% drop in X’s advert income by means of its marketing campaign to reasonable hate speech.
He posted in the identical thread that the group “unjustly assaults the vast majority of the West” regardless of its help for Israel and Jews.
“It’s because they can not, by their very own tenets, criticize the minority teams who’re their major menace. It’s not proper and must cease,” he tweeted.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO additionally accused the ADL of making an attempt to close down the positioning previously often called Twitter and threatened to sue the league for “falsely accusing it and me of being antisemitic.”
White Home spokesperson Andrew Bates blasted Musk, and stated the Biden administration condemns “this abhorrent promotion of Antisemitic and racist hate within the strongest phrases, which runs towards our core values as People.”
“It’s unacceptable to repeat the hideous lie behind probably the most deadly act of Antisemitism in American historical past at any time, not to mention one month after the deadliest day for the Jewish folks for the reason that Holocaust,” Bates stated.
Amid the drama, Apple introduced it was yanking ads from Musk’s X after a report discovered that its adverts have been positioned alongside far-right content material.
Disney, movie firm Lionsgate and tech big IBM additionally pulled their adverts from the social media web site after Media Issues, a liberal watchdog group, reported that their adverts have been positioned subsequent to content material selling Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Social gathering on X.
X stated its system doesn’t deliberately place manufacturers “actively subsequent to this sort of content material,” and that the content material cited by Media Issues would now not be capable to generate profits off its posts.
Scores of Jewish leaders known as for different firms to halt adverts on X following the report’s publication.
Musk, in response, vowed to file “a thermonuclear lawsuit towards Media Issues and ALL those that colluded on this fraudulent assault on our firm.”