Elon Musk blames ADL for lost revenue, says he's 'against anti-Semitism of any kind'

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Elon Musk blames ADL for lost revenue, says he's 'against anti-Semitism of any kind'
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Elon Musk posted that he was against antisemitism Monday and blamed the Anti-Defamation League for lost advertising revenue since his acquisition of X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

The tech mogul posted his stance on free speech and antisemitism seemingly out of the blue on his verified account Monday afternoon. When asked by a user who was questioning his stance, Musk alleged that the ADL has been "trying to kill this platform by falsely accusing it & me of being anti-Semitic."

"If this continues, we will have no choice but to file a defamation suit against, ironically, the 'Anti-Defamation' League," Musk wrote. "If they lose the defamation suit, we will insist that they drop the the “anti” part of their name, since obviously …"

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"Free-speech zealot" stops enforcing hate speech laws, wants to use the courts to force people to stop criticizing him for doing so

I wouldn’t call it “convenient”…. He had to send one of his cocksucking teslabros out to the cow pasture to get that there bullshit.