Some Democratic members of the US House of Representatives plan to ask Elon Musk to publicly withdraw his support for an anti-Semitic message on his social medium X. Democrat Jamie Raskin said this on Sunday on the American channel ‘CNN’, without explaining in detail the exact content of the call to Musk.
Musk, Tesla CEO and owner of He added the comment: “You speak the truth.”
“I thought it was scandalous and dangerous,” Raskin said on Sunday in the CNN program ‘State of the Union’. “We will take action this week, together with colleagues, and write to him, asking him to reject those comments and come clean.”
Musk himself responded to all the criticism on Sunday, via a message on X, writing: “Over the past week, hundreds of nonsense stories appeared in the media claiming that I am anti-Semitic. Nothing is less true. I wish only the best for humanity and a prosperous and exciting future for all.”
Musk is under heavy fire for his response to the anti-Semitic message on X and because anti-Semitic posts and hate messages are regularly posted on the social platform. Various companies have announced in recent days that they will temporarily stop advertising on
Court case
Musk himself now speaks of a “fraudulent attack” on his company and says on Monday he will file a ‘thermonuclear lawsuit’ against research group Media Matters and other parties allegedly responsible. According to Musk, Media Matters has presented an incorrect representation of the facts. “A new attempt to undermine freedom of expression and mislead advertisers,” he writes in a statement on X. Musk states that X positions itself as a media platform that wants to protect freedom of expression.
It is unclear which other parties Musk wants to take to court in addition to Media Matters. According to the CEO, this concerns “everyone who participated in this fraudulent attack on our company”. Against “their boards, their donors, their black money network, all of it.” He does not comment on the fact that he himself responded to an anti-Semitic message.
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