Early on Friday, Elon Musk shared a position written by a X user for the actions of three dictators of the 20th century – and then we quickly deleted it after triggering a reaction.
The position falsely claimed that Joseph Stalin, the Communist leader of the Soviet Union until 1953. Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi party in Germany. And Mao Zenong, the founder of the People’s Republic of China, did not cause the deaths of millions of people under their clock. Instead, the position said, the employees of the public sector did.
Mr Musk shared the position without any other comment. It soon removed it after the users in H was criticizing the post, saying it was anti -Semitic and deterrent to genocide. Historians have widely recorded that millions of people were dying under Stalin, that millions of Jews were slaughtered under Hitler during the Holocaust and that millions of Chinese were displaced or killed during the Mao cultural revolution.
It was Mr Musk’s last position to be transferred to a dispute. In 2023, Mr Musk approved an anti -Semitic position in X as the “true truth” of what the Jews did, urging advertisers to leave. And after an assassination attempt to Mr Trump last year, Mr Musk wrote – then deleted – a position indicating that it was strange that no one had tried to kill former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. or former Vice President Kamala Harris.
Mr Musk has long been seemed to favor the powerful and has promoted the leaders of modern modern ones. He has repeatedly used X to support politicians such as Javier Milei of Argentina, Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil and Narendra Modi, India, leaders in countries where it also has business interests. More recently, he threw his support behind the hard-right alternative to the German party, hosting an online town hall for Chancellor.
“It is deeply annoying and irresponsible for someone with a large public platform to elevate the type of rhetoric that serves to undermine the seriousness of these issues,” the champion said against defamation in a statement on Mr Musk’s exchange.
Mr Musk did not respond to a request for comments.
Mr Musk often uses X as Megaphone to share everything, from minors’ mimicry to major US policy proposals, blasted his views on more than 219 million fans. But his views make more control, having become a close adviser to President Trump helping to revise government spending.
Mr Musk has transformed X, removing many rules about speech and misinformation of hatred and allowing thousands of accounts banned by the company’s previous leadership for problematic positions to return to the platform – including Mr Trump’s.
Around 2:30 am On Friday, Mr Musk shared the position written by a user of X who said: “Stalin, Hitler and Mao did not kill millions of people. The public sector workers did.”
Mr Musk has in recent weeks confronted public sector workers in Washington as part of his work with the cost cutting initiative, known as a department of government efficiency. He has accused federal workers of trying to hide fraud and encouraged them to abandon their work.
The post has sparked reactions from federal trade unions of workers, among others.
“US Public Service workers – Nurses, teachers, firefighters, librarians – have chosen to make our communities safe, healthy and powerful to become rich. They are not, as the richest man in the world implies,” Prefectural and municipal officials.
Mr Musk shared on Friday several observations on X that defends himself from the accusations of anti -Semitism and claiming that his critics were the ones aligned with Nazism. Mr Musk recently came under fire for a gesture that resembles Roman greeting, which is also known as “fascist greeting” and was later adopted by the Nazis.
“Look at what they did to President @realdonaldtrump,” Mr Musk wrote in one position. “He was loved by the Democrats until he ran to the president. Now he is called Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, etc. and try to kill him,” referring to another dictator, Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini.
