2023-11-17 17:09:59
The White House has accused US technology entrepreneur Elon Musk of spreading anti-Semitism because of a controversial message on his online platform X and sharply criticized the multi-billionaire. “We condemn in the strongest possible terms this abhorrent promotion of anti-Semitic and racist hatred,” said a spokesman for US President Joe Biden on Friday. This “goes once morest our core values as Americans.”
On Wednesday, Musk vindicated a user on his short message platform “You told the actual truth,” Musk wrote. The sentence sparked a storm of outrage.
The background is a right-wing extremist conspiracy theory, according to which Jews are pursuing a secret plan to bring illegal migrants to Western countries in order to weaken the white majority. Biden spokesman Andrew Bates said it was “unacceptable” to repeat this “hideous lie.”
“We all have a responsibility to bring people together once morest hate,” the spokesman added. There is also an obligation to confront those who violate the dignity of US citizens and endanger the “security of our communities.”
Musk, who is followed by more than 163 million people on X, has repeatedly attracted attention with provocative and controversial statements. Critics also accuse the head of the electric car manufacturer Tesla and the space company SpaceX of spreading right-wing conspiracy theories.
Meanwhile, the online platform X, which Musk bought in October 2022, is coming under increasing pressure due to the spread of disinformation and hate messages. The EU Commission announced on Friday in Brussels that it would no longer place advertisements on the former Twitter. The US IT company IBM also refrains from on X. There has been an increase in misinformation and hate messages on the platform, particularly in connection with the Middle East war.
“We have observed an alarming increase in disinformation and hate speech on various social media platforms in recent weeks, and X is affected quite severely by this,” said EU Commission spokesman Johannes Bahrke. The Commission no longer wants to place political campaigns on X because it is concerned that the content might “appear in an inappropriate context”.
The Brussels authorities recently initiated an investigation once morest X because users there were said to have freely published disinformation regarding the Middle East war. However, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and her colleagues do not want to give up their user accounts with X for the time being.
IBM announced on Thursday that it would no longer place on X. A report by the organization Media Matters had previously shown that advertisements from the company as well as Apple and Oracle had appeared in the context of right-wing extremist content.
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