Reply to Elon Musk and the ADL

Forum Index » Political Discussion

Reply to "Elon Musk and the ADL"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=jsteele]There have been a number of reports arguing that anti-Semitism on Twitter increased significantly after Elon Musk purchased the social medial network. Here is one example:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/20/antisemitic-tweets-soared-twitter-after-musk-took-over-study-finds/

Note that Musk is suing the organization that produced the report.

Understandably, the ADL has been concerned about such an increase and attempting to work with Twitter/X to combat it. In late August, X CEO Linda Yaccarino met with ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt to discuss the issue. Both Yaccarino and Greenblatt praised the meeting:

[twitter]https://twitter.com/lindayax/status/1696889984337211870?s=61&t=18HZCIzjU0HimbYffjs1LQ[/twitter]

This inspired a number of the Nazis that Musk has allowed back on Twitter to start complaining to Musk. Musk, who seems to be influenced by the worst corners of X/Twitter, bought their argument and began a series of tweets criticizing the ADL. Musk continually escalated his tweets t the point that he actually accused the ADL of trying to kill X/Twitter:

[img]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F5M0FA1WoAAeg9f?format=jpg&name=small[/img]

This eventually reached the point of Musk threatening to sue the ADL for defamation:

[img]https://images.axios.com/qAprBMke3h0g5Ls_x5kJ9CrWo68=/2023/09/04/1693868351496.jpg[/img]

This is quite an extraordinary situation and shows how the Overton window has slide on the topic of anti-Semitism. If you will remember, early in the Musk era of Twitter, Kanye West was suspended from Twitter because of anti-Semitism. West was recently allowed back on the platform. In the meantime, Musk has been platforming and promoting Nazis. Now he is arguably engaging in anti-Semitism himself, scapegoating Jews for his own failures. 
[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics