Elon Musk has stated X needs to be a platform for folks to publish various viewpoints (File)
Elon Musk, the tech entrepreneur accused by civil rights teams of amplifying anti-Jewish hatred on his X social media platform, will meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog in Israel on Monday, Channel 12 TV stated on Sunday.
An Israeli supply confirmed the go to by Elon Musk, a billionaire who additionally runs Tesla and SpaceX. Spokespeople for Tesla and X, previously often called Twitter, didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Elon Musk’s go to coincides with a four-day truce in an Israeli struggle with Palestinian Hamas militants in Gaza.
Netanyahu met Elon Musk in California on September 18 and urged him to strike a steadiness between defending free expression and preventing hate speech after weeks of controversy over antisemitic content material on X.
Elon Musk responded by saying he was towards antisemitism and towards something that “promotes hate and battle,” repeating his earlier statements that X wouldn’t promote hate speech.
Throughout that go to, earlier than the struggle, about 200 folks protested efforts by Netanyahu’s right-wing authorities to curb the powers of Israeli courts. They gathered exterior Tesla’s California manufacturing unit, the place the assembly came about.
Then on November 15 Elon Musk agreed with a publish on X that falsely claimed Jewish folks had been stoking hatred towards white folks, saying the consumer who referenced the “Nice Alternative” conspiracy principle was talking “the precise reality.”
The White Home condemned what it referred to as an “abhorrent promotion of antisemitic and racist hate” that “runs towards our core values as People.”
Main US firms together with Walt Disney, Warner Bros Discovery and NBCUniversal dad or mum Comcast paused their ads on his social media web site.
The “Nice Alternative” conspiracy principle holds that Jewish folks and leftists are engineering the ethnic and cultural substitute of white populations with non-white immigrants that may result in a “white genocide.”
Antisemitism and Islamophobia have risen in the USA and worldwide, together with throughout the now seven-week-old struggle between Israel and Hamas.
Following the outbreak of struggle, antisemitic incidents in the USA rose by practically 400% from the year-earlier interval, in accordance with the Anti-Defamation League, a nonprofit group that fights antisemitism.
Elon Musk has stated X needs to be a platform for folks to publish various viewpoints, however the firm will restrict the distribution of sure posts which will violate its insurance policies, calling the method “freedom of speech, not attain.”
Elon Musk is creating a man-made intelligence startup xAI, and Israel is taken into account a world chief within the subject, because of burgeoning computing and robotics industries.
Israel’s nearly $500 billion economic system, beforehand on monitor for development to high 3% this 12 months with low unemployment, is now estimated at round 2% with gradual development anticipated in 2024 so long as the struggle continues. After an preliminary 6% tumble the outset of the struggle, the shekel has gained 8% towards the greenback and is now at pre-war ranges. Helped primarily by native buyers, inventory costs have additionally recovered from a steep drop final month.
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