Elon Musk Threatens To Sue Anti-Defamation League

September 4, 2023 Extremists, Social Media

Bloomberg News reports:

Elon Musk is blaming the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for a slump in US advertising revenue on X Corp., the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.

Ad sales are still down 60% “primarily due to pressure on advertisers” mounted by the ADL, Musk said in a series of posts Monday.

The ADL has said that reports of harassment and extremist content on the platform have spiked since Musk’s takeover.

Forbes reports:



“The ADL, because they are so aggressive in their demands to ban social media accounts for even minor infractions, are ironically the biggest generators of anti-Semitism on this platform!” Musk tweeted early Monday, somehow suggesting that Jews are to blame for anti-semitism.

Musk’s tweet on Monday was in response to Keith Woods, a white nationalist from Ireland who has previously called himself a “raging anti-semite” in a since-deleted tweet from 2019. “Alex Jones doesn’t want to #BanTheADL because ‘they’re the most pro-Hitler organisation I’ve ever seen’,” Woods tweeted.

Musk’s relationship with far-right voices on X have gotten more attention ever since he purchased Twitter in October 2022 and made a number of changes to the platform. Musk has defended a number of racists, including Dilbert creator Scott Adams when he advocated for racial segregation.

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