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\n Editor\u2019s Note: A version of this story appeared in CNN Business\u2019 Nightcap newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free,\u00a0<\/em>here<\/em>.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n Elon Musk has publicly endorsed an antisemitic conspiracy theory popular among White supremacists: that Jewish communities push \u201chatred against Whites.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n That kind of overt thumbs up to an antisemitic post shocked even some of Musk\u2019s critics, who have long called him out for using racist or otherwise bigoted dog whistles on Twitter, now known as X. It was the multibillionaire\u2019s most explicit public statement yet endorsing anti-Jewish views.\n <\/p>\n

\n ICYMI:<\/strong>\u00a0Musk was responding to a\u00a0post\u00a0Wednesday that said Jewish communities \u201chave been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.\u201d The post also referenced \u201chordes of minorities\u201d flooding Western countries, a popular antisemitic conspiracy theory.\n <\/p>\n

\n It\u2019s the kind of post you can find easily on X these days, and likely would have gone unnoticed had Musk, with more than 160 million followers, not re-shared the post with the comment: \u201cYou have said the actual truth.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n The antisemitic conspiracy theory \u2014 which posits that Jews want to bring undocumented minority populations into Western countries to reduce White majorities in those nations \u2014 is often espoused by hate groups.\n <\/p>\n

\n It\u2019s the same conspiracy echoed in the final written words of Robert Bowers, the convicted murderer of 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018. His last social media post said that a Jewish nonprofit dedicated to aiding refugees \u201clikes to bring invaders in that kill our people.\u201d The mass shooting was the deadliest attack against Jews in American history.\n <\/p>\n

\n Musk, in subsequent posts, expounded on his views. He wrote that he does not believe hatred of White people extends \u201cto all Jewish communities.\u201d But then he singled out the Anti-Defamation League, claiming that it promotes racism against White people.\n <\/p>\n

\n X did not respond to requests for comment.\n <\/p>\n

\n In response, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt wrote that \u201cit is indisputably dangerous to use one\u2019s influence to validate and promote antisemitic theories.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Even the White House weighed in on the tweet.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cIt is unacceptable to repeat the hideous lie behind the most fatal act of Antisemitism in American history at any time, let alone one month after the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust,\u201d White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said Friday in a statement. \u201cWe condemn this abhorrent promotion of Antisemitic and racist hate in the strongest terms.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Musk has rarely been so explicit. But as the owner of X, he has chosen to defend racists\u2019 free speech over the targets\u2019 rights to not be harassed, even going so far as to threaten to sue the ADL for defamation after the organization said antisemitism had surged on X after Musk took over the platform more than a year ago.\u2019\n <\/p>\n

\n There\u2019s no way to know what\u2019s inside Musk\u2019s heart. All we can rely on is what he says and does on his\u00a0very public, powerful platform. Hate speech, whether uttered by Musk or merely endorsed by him, is amplified when the world\u2019s richest person posts or comments on it.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cIt\u2019s doubtful that Musk harbors personal animosity toward Jewish people,\u201d wrote the Atlantic\u2019s Yair Rosenberg earlier this year, regarding another incident in which Musk trumpeted antisemitic statements. \u201cBut he is a conspiracy theorist, and the arc of conspiracy is short and bends toward the Jews.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n There are two popular books out now about Musk, one an authorized biography by Walter Isaacson and another an unauthorized story by Ben Mezrich.\n <\/p>\n

\n Mezrich in recent weeks has told several interviewers about how \u201cElon Musk broke Twitter, and Twitter broke Elon Musk.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n It\u2019s a punchy line, and in some ways I\u2019m sure it\u2019s accurate. Mezrich describes the way the chaotic Twitter takeover forever marred Musk\u2019s reputation as a modern-day Thomas Edison, with Americans now deeply divided over whether he\u2019s a genius or a hack. Mezrich says that Musk has been personally anguished by the backlash, including getting booed onstage at a comedy show and feeling so depressed that X employees at one point considered calling the police to do a wellness check on him.\n <\/p>\n

\n The statement may be\u00a0only half right. There\u2019s plenty of evidence that Musk broke Twitter \u2014 gutted it, rebranded it, tanked its revenue, and made it unrecognizable to its most active users. But Musk was at this long before, spreading countless conspiracy theories, particularly around the Covid pandemic.\n <\/p>\n

\n He bought Twitter so that he could have a space, safe only for himself and his admirers, to broadcast broken ideas.\n <\/p>\n

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