Published January 23,2024
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Elon Musk, the proprietor of social media platform X and luxurious electrical carmaker Tesla who at instances has been accused of backing anti-Semitic posts, visited the memorial web site of the previous German focus camp Auschwitz on Monday.
“It was incredlbly moving and deeply sad and tragic that humans can do this to other humans,” Musk stated within the Polish metropolis of Kraków after the go to at a convention on on-line anti-Semitism organized by the European Jewish Association (EJA).
“It’s good to have these memorials so this can never happen again. It hits you much more in the heart when you see it in person, I need a few days for it to sink in,” Musk stated.
Photos confirmed him on the grounds of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in then-occupied Poland. The infamous focus camp is the place the Nazis exterminated about 1.1 million individuals of whom 1 million had been Jews, in accordance with the Auschwitz-Birkenau state museum.
His go to to Auschwitz was initially deliberate for Tuesday.
As the proprietor of X, Musk was criticized final November for describing a put up containing an anti-Semitic conspiracy principle because the “actual truth” in a put up on the platform.
He later spoke of a misunderstanding and apologized. Hate speech researchers additionally accused X of not taking adequate motion towards anti-Semitic posts. Major advertisers comparable to Apple and Disney subsequently stopped their adverts on the service.
In Kraków, Musk emphasised as soon as once more that the precept of freedom of expression is vital to X. If somebody posts a false declare, others can right it instantly, he stated. “The tireless search for the truth is the goal of X.”
If social media and freedom of expression had existed on the time of Auschwitz, it might have been unimaginable to hide this crime, Musk stated.
Source: www.anews.com.tr