Elon Musk has mentioned X ought to be a platform for individuals to submit 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 mentioned 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 warfare 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 combating 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 warfare, about 200 individuals 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 happened.
Then on November 15 Elon Musk agreed with a submit on X that falsely claimed Jewish individuals have been stoking hatred towards white individuals, saying the consumer who referenced the “Nice Substitute” conspiracy concept was talking “the precise fact.”
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 corporations together with Walt Disney, Warner Bros Discovery and NBCUniversal mum or dad Comcast paused their commercials on his social media website.
The “Nice Substitute” conspiracy concept 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 the USA and worldwide, together with through the now seven-week-old warfare between Israel and Hamas.
Following the outbreak of warfare, antisemitic incidents in the USA rose by practically 400% from the year-earlier interval, in keeping with the Anti-Defamation League, a nonprofit group that fights antisemitism.
Elon Musk has mentioned X ought to be a platform for individuals to submit 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 synthetic intelligence startup xAI, and Israel is taken into account a world chief within the area, because of burgeoning computing and robotics industries.
Israel’s nearly $500 billion financial system, beforehand on monitor for progress to prime 3% this 12 months with low unemployment, is now estimated at round 2% with gradual progress anticipated in 2024 so long as the warfare continues. After an preliminary 6% tumble the outset of the warfare, 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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