On Monday, Elon Musk, the tech billionaire who civil rights organizations claim exacerbates anti-Semitic sentiment on his social networking platform X, will meet with President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel.
The billionaire Elon Musk, who also manages SpaceX and Tesla, made the visit, according to an Israeli source. Requests for response from representatives of Tesla and X, formerly known as Twitter, were not immediately answered. Elon Musk’s visit takes place during the four-day ceasefire in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict involving Hamas militants in Gaza.
After weeks of uproar over antisemitic content on X, Netanyahu met Elon Musk in California on September 18 and encouraged him to find a balance between eliminating hate speech and defending free speech.
Elon Musk retorted that he was against hate speech and that he was against anything that “promotes hate and conflict,” restating his earlier claims that X would not support hate speech.
About 200 individuals demonstrated against Netanyahu’s right-wing government’s attempts to limit the authority of Israeli courts during that visit, which took place before to the conflict. They convened outside the Tesla facility in California, the site of the meeting.
Subsequently, on November 15, Elon Musk endorsed a post on X that purportedly asserted that Jews were inciting anti-white sentiment. The message quoted the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory, claiming the user was expressing “the actual truth.”
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Elon Musk has stated that X should serve as a venue for individuals to share a range of opinions, but the business will restrict the dissemination of some posts that would go against its rules, referring to this strategy as “freedom of speech, not reach.”
Thanks to the growing robotics and computing sectors, Israel is regarded as a global leader in the field of artificial intelligence, and Elon Musk is working on a business called xAI.
