2023-11-17 20:39:24
The White House has condemned comments by billionaire Elon Musk for encouraging anti-Semitic messages on his social media platform, X.
The White House accused Elon Musk on Friday of having made a “abject promotion of anti-Semitic and racist hatred” in one of his publications on his social networkformerly Twitter.
The billionaire responded Wednesday to the owner of an account, who wrote that Jewish people encouraged “hatred against white people”with this message: “You told the exact truth.”
“It is unacceptable to repeat the heinous lie that created the deadliest act of anti-Semitism in American history.”
For the White House, the publication only repeats a popular conspiracy theory among white nationalistsaccording to which Jews have a secret plan to encourage illegal immigration to Western countries in order to undermine the white majority there.
This conspiracy theory was notably taken up by the author of the attack at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018, which left 11 dead. “It is unacceptable to repeat the heinous lie that led to the deadliest act of anti-Semitism in American history,” Andrew Bates, a White House spokesman, said in a statement. , in reference to this attack.
An NGO in the viewfinder
After his first response, Elon Musk continued by asserting that l’Anti-Defamation League (ADL), an association fighting against anti-Semitism, “unfairly attacks a majority of the Westdespite the fact that the majority of the West supports Jewish people and Israel.
“This is because they cannot, according to their own principles, criticize the minority groups who represent the main threat” to Jewish people, he added.
The ADL is one of the NGOs denouncing a notable increase in misinformation and homophobic and racist insults on Xsince the moderation rules changed there with the arrival of Elon Musk.
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