A meeting between Elon Musk, owner of X, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is slated for Monday.
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Several anonymous sources confirmed the meeting to the Washington Post. It comes in light of Musk openly denying the Anti-Defamation League’s accusations of antisemitism against himself and X, which he acquired late last year. The X owner first commented publicly on the ADL on Sept. 4, accusing it of “trying to kill this platform.” Musk has since posted about the ADL over a dozen times, most recently Wednesday night, when he shared a video that outlined the league’s own controversies.
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Since the acquisition, The @ADL has been trying to kill this platform by falsely accusing it & me of being anti-Semitic
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 4, 2023
“X opposes antisemitism in all its forms. Antisemitism is evil and X will always work to fight it on our platform,” CEO Linda Yaccarino subsequently posted. “And X is also always open to proactively working together in that fight with all groups.”
X opposes antisemitism in all its forms. Antisemitism is evil and X will always work to fight it on our platform. And X is also always open to proactively working together in that fight with all groups.?https://t.co/EoXEvrXbKx
— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) September 9, 2023
Yaccarino would go on to clarify in a blog post that the platform has implemented a zero tolerance approach and continues to “add new slurs, harmful terms and phrases” to its watchlist.
Last month, the CEO claimed, “by all objective metrics, X is a much healthier and safer platform than it was a year ago.” When any post is not necessarily illegal but is “awful,” as Yaccarino says, it is labeled, de-amplified, and demonetized. In the cases of those labeled posts, 30% of the time the user will take down the post on their own.
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As a result, Coca-Cola and Visa returned to the platform as advertisers. Following Musk’s takeover, the two companies had briefly stopped advertising on the site.
Musk has threatened to file a defamation lawsuit against the ADL. According to him, the platform’s U.S. ad revenue remains at a 60% low.
