"Journalists in America investigating this matter report that the real concern of advertisers is Musk’s own lurid tweeting, making them nervous of association with what such an unpredictable character might say through the medium of his own product.
As if to confirm the validity of such concerns, Musk last week on Twitter/X followed up a user who quoted the toxic conspiracy theorist Alex Jones (author of the claim that the shootings of children at the Sandy Hook school was a “hoax” involving actors) that the ADL is “the most pro-Hitler organisation I’ve ever seen”. Musk added: “The ADL, because they are so aggressive in their demands to ban social media accounts for even minor infractions, are ironically the biggest generators of anti-Semitism on this platform!”
As Yair Rosenberg wrote in The Atlantic: “Abuse of Jews on his site, he argued, is the consequence of Jews complaining about the abuse. (Chronology does not appear to be his strong suit).” Greenblatt, asked whether he thought Musk was espousing antisemitism himself, responded that the site’s owner was “engaging with users who are blatantly and boldly doing so, and that’s very problematic. I would say that blaming the Jews or the ADL for antisemitism also . . . evokes the age-old tropes that we work so hard to fight.”"
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/77706ee6-4f42-11ee-a041-9c691fc04ff2
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