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Elon Musk attended what he called an “incredibly emotional” excursion to Auschwitz on Monday and defended his X platform in the face of accusations of anti-Semitism just weeks after he sparked a political firestorm by endorsing an anti-Jewish conspiracy theory.
The European Jewish Association said Musk laid a wreath and participated in a memorial service at the former Nazi death camp alongside EJA President Rabbi Menachem Margolin. The photos showed Musk with his son on his shoulders.
“It’s incredibly poignant, deeply unhappy and tragic that humans can do this to other humans. . . It impacts you much more downtown when you see it in person,” Musk said at a convention hosted through EJA in nearby Krakow. Poland.
Musk apologized in November after responding “the genuine truth” to a post on X, the old Twitter, that he criticized for echoing a white supremacist conspiracy theory about Jews. His move prompted some corporations to suspend their classified ads on the platform.
The tech tycoon has also faced accusations of a proliferation of hate speech on X, since his $44-billion takeover of the social media site in October 2022.
At Monday’s event, Musk defended his company.
“The outside audits that we’ve had done … show that there is the least amount of anti-Semitism on X, if you look at all the other social apps,” he said while speaking on a panel with US right-wing political commentator Ben Shapiro.
The symposium saw senior political figures from European countries meet “to discuss and find solutions to the astronomical rises in anti-Semitism affecting Europe,” the EJA said.
“This tendency to worry” has increased since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas, according to the agreement.
The symposium took place shortly before the 79th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on January 27, which has become Holocaust Remembrance Day.
One million European Jews died in the camp built by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland between 1940 and 1945, along with more than 100,000 non-Jews.
– ‘Prosemite’ –
Margolin invited Musk to a stopover at Auschwitz for a livestream on X in September, saying it would be “a very strong statement” that could contribute to “raising awareness about the Holocaust and fighting anti-Semitism. “
Musk agreed that it could be “helpful… as an example to others”.
During the discussion, Musk described himself as “fundamentally Jewish” and attended a Hebrew preschool.
“It’s absurd to be accused of anything when all the evidence points in the opposite direction and my whole life story is prosemitic,” he added at the time.
Musk has threatened to file a lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish advocacy group, over its claims that problematic, racist speech has skyrocketed in X since he took office.
X Corp is also suing Media Matters, a nonprofit, alleging that it scared away advertisers by portraying the site as riddled with anti-Semitic content.
– ‘The stupidest message ever’ –
The post endorsed by Musk in November said that Jewish communities advocated a “dialectical hatred against whites”.
Musk’s endorsement has led to a spate of X deviations from major advertisers and the White House has accused him of “abhorrent promotion” of anti-Semitism.
The social media titan later apologized for what he called “literally the worst and stupidest message I’ve ever made. “
He said he was misunderstood and tried to explain it in the following posts in the thread.
After the controversy, the Tesla and SpaceX mogul visited Israel, but said it had been pre-planned and was not an “apology tour. “
Israeli President Isaac Herzog told the tech mogul that he had “a huge role to play” in the fight against anti-Semitism.
“We have to fight it together because in the platforms that they run, unfortunately, there is a lot of anti-Semitism,” Herzog said.
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