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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 375

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This combination photo shows Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at a campaign event in New York, Sept. 5, 2024, left, and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk at the European Jewish Association's conference in Krakow, Poland, Jan. 22, 2024. (AP)
September 6, 2024, 10:07 am
Trump says he will tap Elon Musk to lead government efficiency commission if elected
US presidential candidate gives few details about how commission would operate, other than placing billionaire supporter at the helm
By Helen Coster and Gram Slattery
Republican nominee and former US president Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event in Sierra Vista, Arizona, near the border with Mexico, August 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)
August 29, 2024, 5:52 pm
Fake pro-Trump X accounts use stolen photos of fashion influencers — study
56 profiles lack usual giveaways of bots, appear to be part of coordinated effort, but their source remains unclear; accounts also peddle disinformation on COVID, Harris’s ethnicity
By Anuj Chopra
Foreign Minister Israel Katz tours the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem, February 19, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 14, 2024, 7:16 pm
‘Pretty infantile’: Public diplomacy mavens pan FM for insulting world leaders on X
Top ‘hasbara’ activists say Israel Katz’s habit of lampooning heads of state on social media is ineffective, perceived as unserious and ‘just adds fuel to the flame’
By ToI Staff
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump (left) speaks to reporters at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach on August 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon); Elon Musk arrives before a joint meeting of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, July 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)
August 13, 2024, 1:41 pm
In glitchy interview, Trump tells Musk Iran ‘wouldn’t be attacking’ if he were president
In two-hour chat marred by technical issues, former US leader reiterates assertion ‘zero chance’ Oct. 7 would have happened on his watch, invites billionaire to join administration
By AP and ToI Staff
FILE - The opening page of X is displayed on a computer and phone, Oct. 16, 2023, in Sydney. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)
August 12, 2024, 5:02 pm
Anonymous X user who threatened hostage families identified as local tycoon
Avi Goldreich, real estate mogul and longtime Likud activist, deletes ‘Beibars’ account after Channel 12 outs him as user behind calls to leave hostage families ‘crippled’
By ToI Staff
FILE - Computer monitors and a laptop display the sign-in page of X, formerly known as Twitter, July 24, 2023, in Belgrade, Serbia. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
August 12, 2024, 2:32 pm
Musk’s X is platform where it is easiest to find Hamas content, watchdog says
Researchers found terror propaganda on X within 10 minutes, as major industry group reportedly sees billionaire owner as thwarting efforts to crack down on extremism
By ToI Staff
The Facebook logo is seen on a cell phone in Boston, October 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)
June 5, 2024, 5:04 pm
Diaspora Ministry funded fake social media posts to spread pro-Israel content — NYT
Paper says influence campaign, which reportedly targeted Black US lawmakers, was commissioned by Israeli government, didn’t have widespread impact; ministry denies involvement
By ToI Staff
Demonstrators gather during a protest decrying sexual violence against women in the October 7 massacre, outside of United Nations headquarters in New York City, on December 4, 2023. (Yakov Binyamin/Flash90)
June 2, 2024, 4:35 pm
Online watchdog prods platforms to tackle posts denying sexual assault on Oct. 7
Antisemitism monitor CyberWell says social media moderators are not doing enough to remove content that casts doubt on credible accounts of rape and other Hamas atrocities
By Sharon Wrobel
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is pictured during a visit at the company's electric car plant in Gruenheide near Berlin, eastern Germany, on March 13, 2024 (Odd ANDERSEN / AFP)
May 3, 2024, 11:54 pm
Elon Musk says he will reinstate X account of antisemite Nick Fuentes
Owner of social media platform says reinstatement in line with his commitment to free speech, however unpalatable, though he does expect to lose advertising
By Ron Kampeas
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, speaks during the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on online child safety on Capitol Hill, Jan. 31, 2024, in Washington. (AP/Mark Schiefelbein)
February 1, 2024, 7:18 pm
Lindsey Graham grills TikTok CEO on resignation of Israel representative
At hearing with tech CEOs, US senator says TikTok ‘being used to help people who want to destroy the Jewish state’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Elon Musk, carrying his son X Æ A-Xii on his shoulders, speaks with Rabbi Menachem Margolin at the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum in Poland on January 22, 2024. (Yoav Dudkevitch)
January 26, 2024, 7:12 pm
Could social media have stopped the Holocaust? Scholars doubt Elon Musk’s theory
Visiting the Auschwitz death camp, the billionaire said the genocide could have been mitigated if only his platform X had been around 80 years ago. Academics beg to differ
By Shira Li Bartov
Elon Musk carries his son X Æ A-Xii on his shoulders flanked by Ben Shapiro, right, Rabbi Menachem Margolin, second from left, and Gidon Lev at the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum in Poland on January 22, 2024. (Yoav Dudkevitch)
January 22, 2024, 9:55 pm
At Auschwitz, Musk says social media, free speech would have prevented extermination
On his first visit to Nazi death camp, owner of X dismisses allegations that his laissez-faire attitude is promoting antisemitism
By Canaan Lidor and Agencies
File - Rapper Kanye West wears a Make America Great Again hat during a meeting with then-US president Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on October 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
December 26, 2023, 3:46 pm
Kanye West deletes all Instagram posts, leaves Hebrew-language apology to Jews
Hip-hop icon known for outlandish antisemitic screeds pens apparently software-translated statement in broken Hebrew professing his will to make amends to the Jewish community
By ToI Staff
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)
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
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