Early on Friday, Elon Musk shared a leaflet written by a X user about the actions of dictators in the twentieth century – and then quickly deleted it after igniting a violent reaction.
The post was falsely claimed Joseph StalinThe Communist leader of the Soviet Union until 1953; Adolf HitlerThe leader of the Nazi Party in Germany; and Mao ZaidongThe founder of the People’s Republic of China, did not cause millions of people the death of them under their control. Instead, the publication said, public sector workers have done.
Mr. Musk shared the post without any other comment. He removed him shortly after users criticized X, saying that he was anti -Semitic and rejected genocide. Historians have been widely reported that millions of people died under Stalin in the fifties of the last century, that millions of Jews were slaughtered under Hitler during the Holocaust, and that millions of Chinese were displaced or killed during the Mao Cultural Revolution.
The last post by Mr. Musk was to turn into controversy. In 2023, Mr. Musk Hadee anti -Semitic function on X As the “actual truth” of what the Jewish people were doing, which prompted advertisers to flee. After an assassination attempt by Mr. Trump last year, Mr. Musk wrote – then deleted – A publication indicates that he was strange No one tried to kill former President Joseph R. Biden Junior or former Vice President Kamala Harris.
Mr. Musk has long appeared in favor of the powerful and promoted right -wing leaders in the modern era. He has again and again X uses to support politicians Like Javier Millie from Argentina, Jerry Bolsonaro from Brazil and Narringra Modi from India, and leaders in countries that also have commercial interests. Recently, it is Support Behind the hard right alternative to the Germany party, Hosting a town hall on the Internet For her candidate for the consultant.
“It is very worrying and irresponsible for a person who has a large public platform to raise this type of discourse that undermines the seriousness of these issues,” said the Anti -Distort Association in a statement on Mr. Musk’s participation in participating in this position.
Mr. Musk did not respond to the comment.
Mr. Musk repeatedly X is used as a megavone To share everything from the memes to the main American policy proposals, and detonate its views for more than 219 million followers. But his views attract more scrutiny because he became a close consultant for President Trump Help in reforming government spending.
Mr. Musk X has turnedRemoving many rules on hate speech and misleading and allowing thousands of accounts banned by the previous leadership of the company about the problematic posts to return to the platform – Including Mr. Trump‘s.
At approximately 2:30 am on Friday, Mr. Musk shared the publication written by the X user, who said: “Stalin, Hitler and Mao did not kill millions of people. Public sector workers did.”
Mr. Musk has fought in recent weeks with public sector workers in Washington as part of his work with a cost -cutting initiative, known as the Ministry of Governmental efficiency. Federal workers have been accused of trying to hide fraud and encouraged them to quit their jobs.
This position ignited a violent reaction from federal employee unions, among other things.
“Public service workers in America – nurses, teachers, firefighters and library secretaries chose our societies safe, healthy and strong on wealth. Sunders, president of the American State Federation for the State, Conservation and Municipality, said in a statement,” They are not, as the richest man in the world suggests, genocide. “
On Friday, Mr. Musk shared several comments on X, defending himself from the accusations of anti -Semitism and claiming that his critics are in line with Nazism. Mr. Musk also recently offered fire for a Make a gesture This is similar to the Roman greeting, which is also known as “fascist salute” and was later adopted by the Nazis.
“Look at what they did to President Realdonaldtrum”, Mr. Musk wrote in one post. He was loved by the Democrats until he was nominated for the presidency. Now they call Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, etc. They are trying to kill him. ”In reference to another dictator, the Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini.
