FOX Business senior correspondent Charlie Gasparino analyzes the controversial ‘X’ post on ‘The Claman Countdown.’
Tech billionaire Elon Musk promised to suspend anyone advocating for the “genocide of any group” from his X platform after being accused of amplifying an antisemitic trope earlier in the week.
“At risk of stating the obvious, anyone advocating the genocide of *any* group will be suspended from this platform,” Musk wrote in a post on X.
“As I said earlier this week, ‘decolonization’, ‘from the river to the sea’ and similar euphemisms necessarily imply genocide. Clear calls for extreme violence are against our terms of service and will result in suspension,” Musk wrote.
Musk faced some backlash earlier in the week over an exchange on X.
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Tesla and SpaceX’s CEO Elon Musk reacts during an in-conversation event with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at Lancaster House on Nov. 2, 2023. (Kirsty Wigglesworth – WPA Pool/Getty Images / Getty Images)
Charles Weber, who identifies himself as a Jewish conservative, wrote to his 14,800 followers, “To the cowards hiding behind the anonymity of the internet and posting ‘Hitler was right’: You got something you want to say? Why dont you say it to our faces…”
Another user, who goes by, “The Artist Formerly Known as Eric,” replied, “Okay. Jewish communties have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.”
“I’m deeply disinterested in giving the tiniest s–t now about western Jewish populations coming to the disturbing realization that those hordes of minorities that support flooding their country don’t exactly like them too much,” the user added in the post viewed 1.6 million times as of Sunday.
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British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak shakes hands with Tesla and SpaceX’s CEO Elon Musk after an in-conversation event at Lancaster House on Nov. 2, 2023. (Kirsty Wigglesworth – WPA Pool/Getty Images / Getty Images)
“You want truth said to your face, there it is,” the user wrote.
In response to that post on Wednesday, Musk wrote, “You have said the actual truth. ”
CNN host Jake Tapper shared a screenshot of the exchange, writing, “Elon Musk pushing unvarnished anti semitism at a time of rising antisemitism and violence against Jews.”
Several users debated what Musk meant by the post before the tech billionaire elaborated.
“The ADL unjustly attacks the majority of the West, despite the majority of the West supporting the Jewish people and Israel,” Musk added. Wednesday. “This is because they cannot, by their own tenets, criticize the minority groups who are their primary threat. It is not right and needs to stop.”
Elon Musk poses for a selfie with Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of the Digital Transformation Georgi Dubyinski at the AI Safety Summit in Bletchley Park, on Nov. 1, 2023 in Bletchley, England. (Toby Melville – Pool/Getty Images / Getty Images)
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On Friday, one user, Shibetoshi Nakamoto, who has 2.1 million followers on X, wrote, “i find it really interesting how the media and advertisers continually only target , while tiktok, reddit, facebook, instagram, and everything else are wildly antisemitic recently. hell, tiktokers are even supporting osama bin laden. is only ‘leftist’ antisemitism okay?”
Musk replied flatly, “Great question.”
