Elon Musk blames ADL for lost revenue, says he's 'against anti-Semitism of any kind'
Elon Musk blames ADL for lost revenue, says he's 'against anti-Semitism of any kind'
So he lost advertisers not because of antisemitism, but because someone complained.
Makes perfect sense.
I'm sure the prospect of having your company's name displayed alongside actual Nazi content has nothing to do with it.
No, no - he means he blames the ADL for making most people not like Nazis.
Thats really the fundamental problem with free speech. Letting anyone say whatever their opinion means that “Everyone” includes morons and racists (who are obviously also morons)
Not letting them have a platform means censorship. Letting them have a platform means hate speech. Tough nut to crack.
Remember, he grew up a rich white boy in full apartheid South Africa, and never matured beyond that. He has no ability for self-reflection or introspection. Which means he's never wrong, so someone else must be to blame. So far, that's included religious, racial, and sexual minorities. He's only going to grow more deranged as time goes on.
True. Lots of people are jumping on the new “Elon is a nazi” bandwagon though.
What a world we live in where disagreeing with what an organization led or founded by someone jewish allegedly did or didn’t do gets you labeled as an anti-semite. I fail to see how anything here has anything to do with anyone being jewish.
I still would like so badly to find out Elon is an anti-semite. It would be the icing on the cake for all the other batshit stiff he’s done. Does anyone know of evidence of this?
Literally the hashtag campaign that Elon is signal boosting (#BanTheADL) is boosted by antisemitic people who make no secret of their antisemitism. Here's more information: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-boosts-antisemitic-propaganda-twitter-anti-defamation-league-1234817008/
In December 2022, Twitter reinstated the account of notorious neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin (and then suspended him again this month), who has a warrant out for his arrest for ignoring a $14 million judgment against him for directing an antisemitic harassment campaign against a target.
Twitter also reinstated the accounts of people who have incited violence or frequently posted hateful content:
The Nation of Islam White nationalist Patrick Casey Misogynist Andrew Tate
Antisemitic tweets directed at Jewish investor and philanthropist George Soros warranted its own category. He was mentioned more than any other person in our data, over 19,000 times, with tweets claiming he was a member of a hidden globalist, Jewish or “Nazi” world order.
in May, Musk likened billionaire George Soros — a perennial boogeyman for the antisemitic right — to a supervillain, claiming that he “hates humanity.”
Antisemitism on Twitter has more than doubled since Elon Musk took over the platform
While jury selection in the trial of the Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue shooter continued on Wednesday, Musk used his platform to boost virulent antisemitic conspiracy theories—including some that the Pittsburgh suspect himself spread
Musk also responded to tweets spreading other Soros conspiracy theories, including false claims that Soros, a Holocaust survivor, helped roundup Jews for the Nazis, and claims that Soros is somehow linked to the Rothschilds, an entirely separate antisemitic conspiracy theory about Jewish bankers which the Soros’ conspiracies have largely replaced.
just days after Musk announced he was buying Twitter for $44 billion, he tweeted about the antisemitic conspiracy that Jews control the U.S. media, including a reference to Soros.
https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/evaluating-twitters-policies-six-months-after-elon-musks-purchase
https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/twitter-not-enforcing-its-policies-antisemitic-content
https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3m443/elon-musk-george-soros-antisemitic-tweets
^ Nazi Cunt
This is where we are with Elon Musk and X/Twitter. He's a passive sympathizer because he allows the content. What makes matters worse is he's trying to blame it on the ADL instead of taking responsibility for it.
He can’t accept for one second that HE is the one who fucked Twitter, so now he’s blowing a dog whistle and saying the ADL did it. Ok.
Malignant narcissists never make a mistake.
That's what they think
I guess the only time the ADL is credited for helping solve a problem is when they weren't the ones to actually help solve it at all
DARVO (deny, attack, and reverse victim and offender).
Literally every single day we have idiots doing Musk’s PR work for free.
Downvote Musk spam. The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring his businesses stay in the 24 hour news cycle.
Usually I agree with that but this is such an obvious example of blazen antisemitism that it is newsworthy. I'm sorry but this is on the same level as Henry Ford and Lindberg.
I am happy to help Musk further reduce his advertising revenue, but it does appear he's pretty good at doing that himself.
Deliberate ignorance is not the answer. Allowing him to do his shady shit unnoticed is not a good idea, regardless of how much of an attention craving narcissist he is.
"I am ✋the 👌least anti-Semitic person ✋◀️▶️✋, ✋▶️◀️✋ you 🫵 have ever met👌"
"It's true. I have many anti-Semitic friends!"
Didn’t he make reply-tweets such as “interesting” on obvious anti-Semitic tweets?
Blame the victims! Nicely done.
Blaming the Jews for your problems, problems you yourself have caused and continue to cause, precisely what Musk is doing here, is the very dictionary definition of antisemitism
"I denounce antisemitism! This is all the Jews' fault."
Must be using Kanye’s PR guy
Like the ADL has sway anywhere. They've gone too far into equating criticism of Israel meaning antisemitism. His problem is that he's actually platforming Nazis.
IMO if the ADL wasn't having an impact shining a spotlight on Musk's behavior, Musk wouldn't be threatening them.
Not to mention that they consider "ACAB" to be hate speech. The ADL is a Liberal-Zionist institution and no one left of AOC should take them seriously in any regard.
I mentally file them of "they CAN do ok work, but they usually refuse to"
Say one thing, act the opposite, people take the action over words. Shut your mouth and do the right thing instead of objectively lying with every stupid word.
Why would he blame Intel for releasing Alder Lake?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Elon Musk posted that he was against antisemitism Monday and blamed the Anti-Defamation League for lost advertising revenue since his acquisition of X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
A spokesperson referred NBC News to a general statement the organization made in response to a recent #BanTheADL campaign on the platform, which Musk has engaged with.
Imran Ahmed, the nonprofit's founder and chief executive, accused Musk of bullying in a statement at the time, describing the suit as "straight out of the authoritarian playbook."
"While we have no way to actually verify if the company is de-amplifying antisemitic content, we have found that Twitter is failing to take down tweets that clearly violate hateful conduct policies," the report said.
"The data conclusively shows that there is a correlation between Musk’s arrival and a broader perceived acceptability to posted hostile content on Twitter," the university said.
In April, the social media site received backlash for seemingly stepping back from a longstanding policy that aimed to protect transgender people on the platform.
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the ADL are bad for every meaning of the word 'bad', regardless of X or Elon. Elon being bad doesn't cancel the ADL being bad.
https://jewishcurrents.org/the-adl-doubles-down-on-opposing-the-anti-zionist-left
And of course anyone you say is bad could never do anything good. That's a big paintbrush you're wielding and you seem to be spilling some on yourself.
Demonizing Palestinians and justifying apartheid and ethnic cleansing is good?
I will grant you that Elon Musk doesn’t care about the bad things that the ADL does and only that they are Jewish. But it doesn’t mean we have to defend the ADL.
Twitter continuing its legacy of being a place where nutty people find weird little hills of bigotry to die on for no reason.
-says he's against anti-Semitism of any kind
-regularly signal boosts white nationalists and neo-nazis
meanwhile the LeafyIsHere account is still running normally, nothing to see there
I'm reluctant to google that lol, who is that account?
this asswipe
the hateful conduct notice was for a “f*ck the jews” tweet that he’s deleted now
