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Elon Musk Deletes Tweet Telling People to Follow Antisemitic Account for War Updates
In the since-deleted tweet, Musk encouraged his nearly 160 million X followers to follow accounts known for spreading liesAs verified accounts on X, formerly Twitter, continue to spread misinformation on the violent conflict between Hamas and Israel, Elon Musk directed his nearly 160 million X followers to follow accounts known for disseminating lies.
“For following the war in real-time, @WarMonitors & @sentdefender are good,” Musk posted on X Sunday morning. He added, “It is also worth following direct sources on the ground. Please add interesting options in replies below.”
In his own post, CNN’s Jake Tapper took a screenshot of Musk’s post next to a screenshot of a derogatory message from the War Monitor account to a user named Avi Kaner. In the caption, Tapper wrote, “Elon Musk lauds this bigot as a good source of information, part Infiniti.”
A year ago, the War Monitors account thanked Kanye West in a Twitter thread and claimed that “the overwhelming majority of people in the media and banks are zi0nists” and told another X user in June “go worship a jew lil bro.”
Emerson T. Brooking, a researcher at the Atlantic Council Digital Forensics Research Lab, wrote on X that @sentdefender is an “absolutely poisonous account. regularly posting wrong and unverifiable things (“sources say”). inserting random editorialization and trying to juice its paid subscriber count.”
Both accounts shared by Musk spread the false report in May of an explosion at the White House, leading to a brief dip in the stock market before the story was debunked.
In August, a hashtag campaign pushed by right-wing ideologues and rife with antisemitic content began to trend on X, and was shown support by owner Musk. As a number of accounts began tweeting #BanTheADL, they called on Musk to remove the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) — a civil rights organization focused on combating antisemitism and extremism — from the site.
Keith Woods, an Irish YouTuber with connections to prominent white supremacists including Richard Spencer and Nick Fuentes, amplified the hashtag in a post that falsely alleged that the ADL is “financially blackmailing social media companies into removing free speech on their platform.” Musk engaged with Woods, first by liking the post, then by replying that “ADL has tried very hard to strangle X/Twitter.”
One year after Musk’s takeover of X, the social media platform has dissolved its trust and safety council, reinstated right-wing extremists and peddlers of misinformation previously banned from the platform, censored journalists critical of Musk (they have since been un-suspended), and reportedly saw an increase in hate speech on the site — the billionaire threatened to sue the researchers documenting the rise in hateful tweets.
- king of misinformation right at the top of the corporationneverscared
- stupid is as stupid doesutopian
- lol @WarMonitors - I mean, yeah, it's worth tracking (especially their telegram channel) but it really isn't ..well, balanced, if you will.Nairn
- I am amused at their referring to the IDF as the IOF though, as dark and relevant as that is to find amusement in.Nairn
- He's actually got a point: There is no balanced middle ground coverage here, so you can only really check in on both extremes and draw your own conclusions.Nairn
- u can also check news sources from around the middle and not extremes to find a better middle ground...neverscared
- except u enjoy your news from some hot headed pricks ...neverscared
- u dont go to mcdonalds or eat sushi at a gas station to know what extreme shit food tastes like..u know it already and eat something cooked-written more carefulneverscared
- Ok, so where is this comprehensive and well-informed middle ground you speak of? I'll wait. A long time, I suspect.Nairn
- And before you bleat "The Guardian" etc (to which I'm a subscriber) I mean more facts on the ground, not post hoc editorial analysisNairn
- for some people them middle ground is the extremists side... more facts from the ground from extremists side.?. highly likely not...neverscared
- guardian not bad... der standard not too bad either.. they have reporters on the ground too in interviews so its fine.neverscared
- at least they have no anti-semitic- hate contentneverscared
- i hope u didn´t wait too long ... dont wanna keep you waiting checking out anti-semitic news sources ... ;)neverscared
- this whole thing was not really negatively aimed at you.. you generally seem like a reasonable personneverscared
- enjoy your shit burger and cheap sandwiches covered in dirt from the ground.... just kidding..neverscared
- You done?Nairn
- only if are u satisfied ?neverscared
- just make sure u dont get diarrhea eating from all that dirty food and shit yourself ...neverscared
- I can't decide whether you're nasty or just a bit simple. Certainly, your view of the world is.. simplistic. Teenage, almost.Nairn
- heisenbergsche unschärfe principle ... to fast to determine.... yes i know u said that teenage thing a couple of times already... lets hope its not alzheimerneverscared
- that u always forget u already said it...neverscared