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Elon Musk wears a symbollic dog tag in honor of Israeli hostages onstage during The New York Times Dealbook Summit 2023 at Jazz at Lincoln Center on November 29, 2023 in New York City. (Slaven Vlasic / Getty Images via AFP)

Musk apologizes for endorsing antisemitic post, curses advertisers boycotting X for it

Back from Israel, social media platform owner says any who try to ‘blackmail’ him by withholding ads can ‘go f**k yourself’; suggests some Jewish groups have funded Hamas affiliates

November 30, 2023, 10:04 am

Musk apologizes for endorsing antisemitic post, curses advertisers boycotting X for it

Back from Israel, social media platform owner says any who try to ‘blackmail’ him by withholding ads can ‘go f**k yourself’; suggests some Jewish groups have funded Hamas affiliates

By Andrew Lapin

US billionaire Elon Musk, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, take a tour of Kfar Aza, November 27, 2023. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

November 27, 2023, 10:56 am

Musk tours Gaza border kibbutz with PM, says ‘no choice’ but for Israel to destroy Hamas

Billionaire shown evidence of Oct. 7 atrocities, including screening of 43-minute Hamas massacre footage; Herzog urges tech mogul to clamp down on antisemitic hate speech on X

By AFP, JTA and Jeremy Sharon

X (formerly Twitter) CEO Elon Musk attends an in-conversation event with Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London on November 2, 2023. (Kirsty Wigglesworth / POOL / AFP)

November 24, 2023, 10:47 am

Musk to visit Israel next week, tour Gaza border towns – report

Tech mogul, who held a live conversation with Netanyahu in California weeks before war broke out, set to arrive as he battles allegations of antisemitism

By ToI Staff

File: X CEO Elon Musk leaves a US Senate bipartisan Artificial Intelligence (AI) Insight Forum at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on September 13, 2023. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

November 22, 2023, 6:20 pm

Musk vows to donate revenue ‘associated’ with Gaza war to hospitals, aid orgs

CEO of social media platform X, who has come under fire for endorsing an antisemitic tweet, vague on the type of income to be donated and the organizations that would receive it

By Andrew Lapin

An 'X' sign rests atop the company headquarters in downtown San Francisco, on July 28, 2023. (Noah Berger/AP)

November 21, 2023, 9:00 am

Musk’s X sues liberal advocacy group over report on ads next to hate group posts

Social media platform claims Media Matters for America manipulated algorithms to create images of advertisers’ paid posts next to racist content; group says suit is ‘frivolous’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition, March 9, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

November 18, 2023, 6:26 pm

Elon Musk: Genocidal terms like ‘from the river to the sea’ to result in suspension

Under fire for endorsing antisemitic post, X owner says won’t tolerate ‘clear calls for extreme violence’ on social media platform such as ‘decolonization’

By ToI Staff

November 17, 2023, 8:10 pm

IBM, Disney, EU pull ads from X as concerns over antisemitism fuel backlash

Latest outcry comes as report shows ads for prominent companies being placed next to pro-Nazi posts and after Musk posts own tweets endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory

By Kelvin Chan

X owner Elon Musk during an in-conversation event with Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at Lancaster House in London, November 2, 2023. (Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP)

November 16, 2023, 9:27 am

Musk endorses tweet claiming Jews stoke hatred of white people as ‘the actual truth’

After X user posts message that Jewish people push ‘dialectical hatred against whites,’ billionaire owner agrees with message, following it up with further attacks on ADL

By ToI Staff

Palestinians in the West Bank city of Nablus celebrate on October 7, 2023, after Hamas terrorists infiltrated Israel from the Gaza Strip and launched a brutal large-scale attack on Israeli towns and cities. (Photo by Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)

October 12, 2023, 2:23 pm

X takes down hundreds of accounts with Hamas ties, flags content

Platform’s CEO describes efforts to handle illegal and fake content on site since Hamas’s onslaught Saturday, generate fact checking on posts

By Agencies

Workers install lighting on an 'X' sign atop the company headquarters, formerly known as Twitter, in downtown San Francisco, July 28, 2023. (Noah Berger/AP)

October 11, 2023, 9:25 pm

Germany’s federal anti-hate group quits X, citing ‘enormous rise’ in hate speech

Anti-discrimination agency says ‘racism, misogyny, antisemitism’ fueled decision, as Berlin’s digital minister calls on Musk to delete accounts that ‘incite violence against Jews’

By AFP

October 5, 2023, 9:11 pm

ADL to resume advertising on Elon Musk’s X despite lingering antisemitism concerns

After weeks of animosity, Anti-Defamation League says it appreciates recent statements by social media platform’s leadership to address hate on site; Musk welcomes development

By Ben Sales

Elon Musk departs the Phillip Burton Federal Building and United States Court House in San Francisco, January 24, 2023. (Benjamin Fanjoy/AP)

October 3, 2023, 10:28 am

Jewish man sues Musk for amplifying false claim linking him to neo-Nazi group

Tech CEO engaged with X users promoting conspiracy that Benjamin Brody, 22, was involved in clash at Oregon Pride Festival, terming it a ‘probable false flag situation’

By AP

September 29, 2023, 4:28 am

Elon Musk, in chat with right-leaning Jews, claims antisemitism isn’t a problem on X

Tech entrepreneur says he’s ‘aspirationally Jewish,’ hedges on invite to Auschwitz, during call with Jewish leaders on allegations of antisemitism on his social media platform

By Andrew Lapin

Computer monitors and a laptop display the X, formerly known as Twitter, sign-in page, in Belgrade, Serbia, July 24, 2023. (Darko Vojinovic/AP)

September 27, 2023, 6:08 pm

Over 120 Jewish activists call on advertisers and app stores to drop Twitter/X

Prominent thinkers and campaigners from across political spectrum say Elon Musk’s social media platform is ‘a breeding ground for antisemitism,’ great danger to Jews

By Ron Kampeas

Israel's Foreign Ministry offers a message of congratulations to Saudi Arabia for its National Day, September 23, 2023 (X screenshot)

September 23, 2023, 4:35 pm

‘Peace and good neighborliness’: Israel congratulates Saudis on their National Day

In new sign of warming ties, Foreign Ministry issues Arabic-language greeting to Riyadh on day that celebrates establishment of modern Saudi kingdom

By ToI Staff