Early on Friday, Elon Musk shared a message written by an X user about the actions of three 20th -century dictators -then quickly removed after it caused a recoil.
The post wrongly 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 Zedong, the founder of the People's Republic of China, did not cause the death of millions of people under their watch. Instead, the position said, their employees did in the public sector.
Mr. Musk shared the message without any other comments. He removed it shortly after users criticized X on X and said it was anti -Semitic and was rejected for genocide. Historians have described a lot that millions of people died under Stalin, that millions of Jews were slaughtered under Hitler during the Holocaust and that millions of Chinese were displaced or killed during Mao's cultural revolution.
It was the last function of Mr. Musk to go in controversy. In 2023, Mr. Musk ended an anti -Semitic function on X as 'the real truth' of what Jewish people did, as a result of which advertisers were asked. And after a murder attack on Mr Trump last year, Mr. Musk – then removed – wrote a function that suggested that it was strange that no one had tried former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. Or former Vice President Kamala Harris to kill.
Mr. Musk has long appeared to favor strong men and has promoted the modern leaders of the right wing. He has repeatedly used X to support politicians such as Javier Milei from Argentina, Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil and Narendra Modi from India, leaders in countries where he also has business interests. He recently threw his support behind the hard alternative to Germany Party and organized an online town hall for his candidate for Chancellor.
“It is deeply disturbing and irresponsible for someone with a large public platform to elevate the type of rhetoric that serves to undermine the severity of these issues,” said the Anti-Defamation League in a statement about sharing the post by Mr. Musk.
Mr. Musk did not respond to a request for comment.
Mr. Musk often uses X as a megaphone to share everything, from youth memes to large American policy proposals, which explodes his opinions to his more than 219 million followers. But his views are more control because he has become a close adviser to President Trump to revise government spending.
Mr. Musk has transformed X, removed many rules around hate speech and disinformation and allowing thousands of accounts forbidden by the earlier leadership of the company for problematic functions to return to the platform – including Mr Trump's.
Around 2:30 am 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 employees in the public sector did that. '
In recent weeks, Mr. Musk has fought with employees in the public sector in Washington as part of his work with his cost -saving initiative, known as the Department of Government Efficiency. He has accused federal employees of hiding fraud and encouraged them to leave their jobs.
The post led to a recoil from, among other things, federal employee unions.
“American public service providers – our nurses, teachers, firefighters, librarians – chose to make our communities safe, healthy and strong to get rich. They are not, as the world's richest man implies, genocidal murderers, “said Lee Saunders, the president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal employees, in a statement.
Mr. Musk shared various comments about X on Friday against accusations of anti -Semitism and claimed that his critics were the ones who were tailored to Nazism. Mr. Musk also recently came under fire for a gesture that resembled the Roman greeting, which is also known as the “fascist greeting” and was later taken over by the Nazis.
“See what they have done with President @realdonaldrump,” Mr. Musk wrote in one message. “He was loved by Democrats until he ran for President. Now they call him Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, etc. and try to kill him, “referring to another dictator, the Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini.
