Elon Musk and Netanyahu held a dialog on X following their tour of Kfar Aza.
Jerusalem:
Israel’s president informed Elon Musk on Monday that the tech mogul has “an enormous function to play” to fight anti-Semitism, which his social media platform is accused of spreading.
The assembly got here after the world’s richest individual visited a kibbutz group devastated in assaults by Hamas militants on October 7, and met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defence officers.
Musk has been criticised over what critics say is a proliferation of hate speech on X, previously Twitter, since his takeover of the social media website in October 2022.
He has been accused by the White Home of “abhorrent promotion” of anti-Semitism after endorsing a conspiracy concept seen as accusing Jews of attempting to weaken white majorities.
Israel’s figurehead President Isaac Herzog informed him: “Sadly, we’re inundated by anti-Semitism, which is Jew hatred.
“You could have an enormous function to play,” he mentioned. “And I feel we have to battle it collectively as a result of on the platforms which you lead, sadly, there is a harbouring of plenty of… anti-Semitism.”
Musk didn’t point out anti-Semitism in his video remarks launched by Herzog’s workplace, however mentioned Hamas militants “have been fed propaganda since they have been youngsters”.
“It is exceptional what people are able to in the event that they’re fed falsehoods, from when they’re youngsters; they may suppose that the homicide of harmless individuals is an efficient factor.”
On October 7 Hamas militants broke by Gaza’s militarised border into southern Israel to kill round 1,200 individuals and seize about 240 hostages, in response to Israeli officers, within the worst-ever assault because the nation’s founding.
Vowing to destroy Hamas in response, Israel has carried out a relentless bombardment of targets in Gaza, alongside a floor invasion, that the Hamas authorities says has killed nearly 15,000.
A brief truce has been in impact since Friday.
– Speak of satellites –
Earlier Monday, Netanyahu and Musk mentioned “safety points of synthetic intelligence” with senior defence officers, the Prime Minister’s Workplace mentioned.
Musk and Netanyahu held a dialog on X following their tour of Kfar Aza, one of many communities attacked by Hamas.
“We have now to demilitarise Gaza after the destruction of Hamas,” Netanyahu mentioned, calling for a marketing campaign to “deradicalise” the Palestinian territory.
“Then we additionally need to rebuild Gaza, and I hope to have our Arab pals assist in that context.”
Netanyahu informed Musk he hoped to renew United States-mediated normalisation talks with Saudi Arabia after Hamas’s defeat and “broaden the circle of peace past something possible”.
The warfare stalled progress in the direction of a Saudi-Israel normalisation deal, and in early November Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler denounced the conduct of Israeli forces preventing Hamas in Gaza.
Israel’s Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi mentioned his nation had reached an understanding in precept on the usage of Starlink satellites, operated by Musk’s firm SpaceX, in Israel and the Gaza Strip “with the approval of the Israeli Ministry of Communications”.
Starlink is a community of satellites in low Earth orbit that may present web to distant areas, or areas which have had regular communications infrastructure disabled.
In September, Netanyahu urged Musk “to cease not solely anti-Semitism, or rolling it again as greatest you possibly can, however any collective hatred” on X.
Musk mentioned on the time that whereas his platform couldn’t cease all hate speech earlier than it was posted, he was “typically in opposition to attacking any group, regardless of who it’s”.
X Corp is at the moment suing nonprofit Media Issues on the grounds that it has pushed away advertisers by portraying the positioning as rife with anti-Semitic content material.
Musk has additionally threatened to file swimsuit in opposition to the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish advocacy group, over its claims that problematic and racist speech has soared on the positioning since he accomplished his $44-billion takeover.
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