Elon Musk promised to do “everything possible” to rid his social media platform X of hatred and antisemitism during a damage-control visit to Israel on Monday.
Himself accused of antisemitism after endorsing an antisemitic tweet on the site formerly known as Twitter, the world’s richest man paid a visit to Kfar Aza, a kibbutz attacked by Hamas on Oct. 7, on Monday to hear about the massacre directly from Israeli officials and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
After a joint livestream on X with Netanyahu, who described the Oct. 7 slaughter in gruesome detail, Musk was then given a tour of the Knesset before a meeting with President Isaac Herzog, who told the billionaire he had a “huge role because the platforms you lead have a large reservoir of hatred of Jews and antisemitism.”
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Musk replied: “We need to do everything possible to stop the hate.”
The billionaire made the trip less than two weeks after he was blasted for endorsing an antisemitic post on X, a move that saw major advertisers desert the network. He later dismissed the reports on what he had done as “bogus media stories claiming that I am antisemitic.”
During the visit to Kfar Aza, a bulletproof vest-clad Musk visited the homes of Ofir Libstein, and Ram and Lili Itamari, who were all killed in the attack, according to Ynet. The outlet reported that Musk was filming what he saw with his phone.
