Elon Musk Tries to Backpedal After Agreeing With Anti-Semitic Tweet – and Fails Spectacularly

FILE - Tesla and SpaceX Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition in Washington on March 9, 2020. Twitter wants a Delaware court to order Elon Musk to buy the social media service for $44 billion, as he promised back in April. But suppose a judge makes that ruling and Musk balks? The Tesla billionaire's reputation for dismissing government pronouncements has some worried about how he’d react to an unfavorable ruling of the Delaware Court of Chancery, known for its handling of high-profile business disputes. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

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By Michael Luciano

Nov 15th, 2023, 9:17 pm

Elon Musk, man. This guy.

On Wednesday, the billionaire owner of X, formerly known as Twitter, agreed with a blatantly anti-Semitic post on the platform. And no, this wasn’t some faux “anti-Semitism” that criticized Israel’s policies. No, this was actual “unvarnished anti-Semitism,” as CNN’s Jake Tapper called it.

Here’s the initial tweet from a paid blue checkmark with a couple of thousand followers:

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