Elon Musk is getting beat up in, you guessed it. the New York Times Again, let's try to understand what they could possibly be complaining about this time. Elon Musk has crossed a line all right. David Walsh David Walsh The post doctoral associate at the Yale program for the study of Anti-semitism the author of taking America back, A conservative movement and the Far Right.

Oh dear. Elon Musk One of the world's richest men who is now most famous for running Twitter has a new excuse for the company shaky performance since he bought it last year. The problem, according to Musk is the Jews. That's not what busk said at all.

In case you don't know, I'm gonna give you like a really high level overview. There's basically this: Anti-Defamation League that's been trying to censor uh Twitter and Lobby for censorship on Twitter for a very long period of time. Elon Musk is threatening to sue them Elon Musk claims that because of them, advertising revenue is down 60 because they put together fallacious studies that say hate on on Twitter is increasing ever since Elon Musk has bought it Elon Musk obviously disputes that Twitter suggests that statistically false and then of course the ADL is like no, it's not. Here's our research and you basically you have this like big pissing match going on based so far on the first paragraph I Have a feeling we know which way this article is going to go in an outburst on this platform.

Monday Mr Mr Musk claimed without presenting any evidence that ad revenue on Twitter is down 60 primarily due to pressure on advertisers by the ADL which he said has been trying to kill this platform by falsely accusing it and me of being anti-semitic Okay, look saying hey, I'm being falsely accused of being anti-jew and therefore ad revenues are down is very different from saying ad revenues are down because of quote the Jews This is not a way to write a at all an article that is supposed to convey any unbiased or fairness at all. It's basically the hit piece, so let's see what it is. While the website has long had a reputation as a cesspool for lies, hate speech, and a significant Neo-Nazi user base, you know I would be very curious to know where this person's citation is on this Now don't get me wrong, Twitter's not perfect. The stuff that usually does well on Twitter in terms of views does need extra context, but that's social media in general and ultimately it's on the users to dive deeper.

Beyond Headlines right and to understand perspective. But this is a pretty rough argument here to say. Twitter's just a cesspool for lies, hate speech, and new Neo-Nazi useries personally I Go on Twitter every single day I don't and this is anecdotal obviously. but I don't see hate speech I mean unless you go in, the comments and people are like Kevin you have a very punchable face.

but quite frankly that might be true. So I don't know if that's necessarily hate speech. but anyway, uh, I don't We certainly wouldn't call it a cesspool for lies or Nazi user base. but okay.

under Jack Dorsey Twitter had begun taking steps to ban the most provocative and openly racist and anti-semitic users. 2018 report by the ADL noted that two point or 4.2 million anti-semitic tweets had been shared or re-shared on the platform in the previous year. Before Twitter's ban on extremist accounts took effect, Musk largely reversed these policies under the ages of free Speech thanks to that reinstatement of extremist accounts and a new algorithm which prioritizes posts for verified users who've forked over eight dollars a month. Twitter now functions as a bullhorn for the most toxic elements of the White Nationalist right now.

I Think this is a little rough as well, because you have to keep in mind that Elon is uh. Elon's belief is that hey, free speech like it is not the goal or the duty of a platform to determine what speech should be allowed and not allowed. That's on you, ultimately the user. If you don't want to see speech that you don't agree with, there is a block function.

And if you interact with that sort of speech less, you see it less. But Ultimately, it's the job of a platform to just follow the law. and if the law says hey, you can't yell fire in a crowded theater then then wolf enforce that law. But beyond that, it's not a incumbent upon a platform to determine what speech should be said and not said Remember The Supreme Court has famously said, your right to throw a punch ends where my face begins.

In other words, you want to go throw punch in the air all day long. You can do that. The point where it becomes a crime is when you're actually threatening somebody and so I think these are these are very different, important distinction, distinctions and sort of reiterate why Elon Musk is suing uh, the California Attorney General now on uh, the premise of fighting and preventing California from requiring Twitter from imposing definitions on what hate speech is now I Think Elon's lawsuit could have been structured better I Think there's a fundamental weakness in Elon's lawsuit specific quickly because there's a very clear line that suggests simply tell us what your policies are on content moderation if any which you could, then simply just say we don't have one or it's limited to the extent of the law. Which means I think their lawsuit is somewhat weak, but stepping back for a moment.

The point is, Twitter is actively fighting to get more clarity in courts on free speech and that's something to be. Uh, applauded. Uh, okay, great. Mr Musk also blamed a collapse in the company's value on estimates placed on a company's worth roughly one-third of the 44 billion must paid for it.

We all know he overpaid for it. That's the old news and now he's considering legal action against the ADL Mr Musk insists that his claims are not anti-semitic and that he Harbors no animus towards Jews Why does this author say that the Jews you know I grew up my stepmother was Jewish almost all my dad's girlfriends were Jewish uh some of my the best employees that I've had in the past during my campaign. I think you know what's crazy is uh, during my campaign we had so many uh I think I think the majority of our campaign workers were Jewish uh I want to say we had somewhere around what 13 and out of that I think like 60 were Jewish I think Jewish people Obviously the stereotypes they're good with money but I think very smart people I had nothing bad to say but so I try to look at this and I'm not Jewish but I try to look at it you know Barbara Corcoran Kevin O'leary I think even Damon Johnson I think they're all Jewish I grew up in South Florida uh there's a massive concentration of Jewish people in uh in New York in Florida especially South Florida Oh my gosh, you can't go to a restaurant without knocking into a Jewish person. but anyway, uh you you know I don't My point of this is saying like I've never seen and I watch Elon a lot you know I and I have my criticism to be long but I've never seen Elon b anti-jewish or actually anti-any race or religion I I haven't seen that.

So I I think this is very weird. uh, like a very, very biased uh piece here but again, I'm still going to read it because I like to see what their argument is and so far their argument's very weak. There's a long history of far-right groups attacking the ADL for its alleged smears. Okay, we're going into like the history of the ADL being attacked.

Well of course the ADL is going to be attacked. uh because if the ADL remember any kind of you know organization is trying to drum up uh attacks to gain donations and in doing so they're going to get counter-attacked But so far this anti-semitic stuff I just don't see this. Uh okay, let's see here in 2012: Greenblatt uh President of the ADL praised uh Elon Musk in comments Greenbot called Mr Musk an amazing entrepreneur. Yeah, he's the Henry Ford of our time, a creative genius.

between Ford Motor Company the same way Musk Fanboys on Twitter gush about how the company SpaceX will lead to humanity will lead Humanity to a cosmic future. Well, at least they're trying. Mr Ford was seeing seen as an apostle for modernity Joseph Stalin sought out experts from the Ford Motor Company to help industrialize the Soviet Union uh Huxley dated his calendar and the dystopian novel Brave New World after Ford Uh Mr Ford America's great Infamous Antisense. Are you serious? This author is literally trying to compare Elon Musk to Ford as an industrialist and because Solon liked Ford and Huxley compared Ford to basically or or you know other someone else here compared him to an anti-semite Therefore, Musk must be an anti-semite So they're literally saying like let's let's think about this line of logic for a moment of how disgusting this line of logic is from of it.

Okay, you ready for this? Look at this line of logic. Tell me if I'm missing something here. Okay, so uh uh uh. let's see here: Elon called industrialist and Austrialist Okay, Ford was industrialist.

Okay, an industrialist. There we go. All right. Uh, since uh, Stalin liked Ford someone called Ford anti-jew and Huxley says uh Ford equals Brave New World Basically, you are therefore concluding oh crap stupid iPad crashed It's the logic was so bad that my iPad literally just crashed by stringing that together.

You're concluding Elon Musk is anti-jew This is pathetic. This is like, why do they air this stuff in the New York Times Like this is just embarrassing. This shouldn't even be on here. There's not I'm scrolling through this right now.

There's not a single, not a single piece of evidence, not one piece of evidence in here as to how Elon is anti-jew But here's a whole opinion piece about how Elon has crossed the line because he's like Ford and Stalin like Ford So obviously he's a commie and Huxley says uh, you know elon's basically Gonna Be Brave New World because Ford was and somebody else called Ford an anti-semite Therefore, Elon is. That's the argument here. This is completely ludicrous, but this is. this is the kind of logic that I guess gets aired uh in the mainstream media these days.

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