On Friday at the beginning, Elon Musk shared a post written by a user x on the actions of three dictators of the 20th century, so he eliminated him quickly after he triggered a repercussions.
The post falsely stated that Joseph Stalin, communist leader of the Soviet Union until 1953; Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi party in Germany; And Mao Zedong, the founder of the People’s Republic of China, did not cause the death of millions of people under their surveillance. Instead, the post said, they did their workers in the public sector.
Mr. Musk shared the post without any other comment. He removed it immediately after the users on X criticized the pole, saying that he was anti -Semitic and contemptuous towards the genocide. Historians have widely said that millions of people died under Stalin, that millions of Jews were massacred under Hitler during the Holocaust and that millions of Chinese were displaced or killed during the Cultural Revolution of Mao.
It was Mr. Musk’s last post to turn into disputes. In 2023, Mr. Musk approved an anti -Semitic post on X as “the real truth” of what the Jews were doing, pushing the advertisers to escape. And after an assassination attempt on Mr. Trump last year, Musk wrote – then canceled – a post that suggests that it was strange that no one had tried to kill the former president Joseph R. Biden Jr. or the former vice -president Kamala Harris.
Mr. Musk seems to favor strong men for a long time and has promoted modern right -wing leaders. He repeatedly used x to support politicians such as Javier Milei of Argentina, Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil and Narendra Modi dell’Idia, leader in countries where he also has commercial interests. More recently, he threw his support behind the Hard-Right For Germany Party alternative, hosting an online Town Hall for his Cancelliere candidate.
“It is deeply disturbing and irresponsible for someone with a large public platform to raise the type of rhetoric that serves to undermine the severity of these problems,” said the anti-Diffamation League in a declaration on the sharing of Musk.
Mr. Musk did not respond to a commentary request.
Mr. Musk often uses X as a megaphone to share anything, from youth meme to the main US political proposals, exploding his opinions to his over 219 million followers. But his points of view have been attracting greater control since he became a close councilor for President Trump, helping to review the government’s expenses.
Musk has transformed X, removing many rules on the speech and disinformation of hatred and allowing thousands of accounts prohibited by the previous leadership of the company for problematic places to return to the platform, including that of Mr. Trump.
Around 2:30 on Friday, Mr. Musk shared the post written by an X user who said: “Stalin, Hitler and Mao did not kill millions of people. Their workers in the public sector have done. “
In recent weeks Musk has fought with the workers of the public sector in Washington as part of his work with his initiative to reduce costs, known as the Department of Efficiency of the Government. He accused the federal workers of trying to hide the fraud and encouraged them to leave their jobs.
The post triggered a repercussions by the federal unions of employees, among others.
“The workers of the American public service – our nurses, teachers, firefighters, librarians – have chosen to make our communities safe, healthy and strong to become rich. As the richest man in the world suggests, the genocidal killers suggests, “said Lee Saunders, president of the American Federation of state employees, of the County and Municipal.
On Friday Musk shared several comments on X defending himself from the accusations of anti -Semitism and claiming that his critics were those aligned with Nazism. Mr. Musk also recently caught fire for a gesture that resembled the Roman greeting, who is also known as “fascist greeting” and later was adopted by the Nazis.
“Look at what they did to the president @realdonaldTrump,” Musk wrote in a post. “He was loved by the Democrats until he ran for the president. Now they call him Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, etc. And they try to kill him “, referring to another dictator, the Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini.