Elon Musk has stated X needs to be a platform for individuals 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 referred to as Twitter, didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Elon Musk’s go to coincides with a four-day truce in an Israeli battle with Palestinian Hamas militants in Gaza.
Netanyahu met Elon Musk in California on September 18 and urged him to strike a stability 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 in opposition to antisemitism and in opposition to something that “promotes hate and battle,” repeating his earlier statements that X wouldn’t promote hate speech.
Throughout that go to, earlier than the battle, about 200 individuals protested efforts by Netanyahu’s right-wing authorities to curb the powers of Israeli courts. They gathered outdoors Tesla’s California manufacturing facility, the place the assembly befell.
Then on November 15 Elon Musk agreed with a publish on X that falsely claimed Jewish individuals have been stoking hatred in opposition to white individuals, saying the person who referenced the “Nice Substitute” conspiracy idea was talking “the precise reality.”
The White Home condemned what it known as an “abhorrent promotion of antisemitic and racist hate” that “runs in opposition to our core values as Individuals.”
Main US firms together with Walt Disney, Warner Bros Discovery and NBCUniversal mother or father Comcast paused their commercials on his social media website.
The “Nice Substitute” conspiracy idea holds that Jewish individuals and leftists are engineering the ethnic and cultural alternative of white populations with non-white immigrants that can result in a “white genocide.”
Antisemitism and Islamophobia have risen in america and worldwide, together with through the now seven-week-old battle between Israel and Hamas.
Following the outbreak of battle, antisemitic incidents in america rose by practically 400% from the year-earlier interval, in line with the Anti-Defamation League, a nonprofit group that fights antisemitism.
Elon Musk has stated X needs to be a platform for individuals to publish various viewpoints, however the firm will restrict the distribution of sure posts which will violate its insurance policies, calling the strategy “freedom of speech, not attain.”
Elon Musk is growing a man-made intelligence startup xAI, and Israel is taken into account a world chief within the area, due to burgeoning computing and robotics industries.
Israel’s virtually $500 billion financial system, beforehand on monitor for progress to prime 3% this yr with low unemployment, is now estimated at round 2% with gradual progress anticipated in 2024 so long as the battle continues. After an preliminary 6% tumble the outset of the battle, the shekel has gained 8% in opposition to 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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