Elon Musk calls on AP to change capitalization rule on races

Published September 10, 2025 4:05pm ET



Tesla CEO Elon Musk criticized the Associated Press for its style guide, which capitalizes black as a race but uses lowercase for all other races.

“Why is ‘white’ always in lowercase, but Black is uppercase, @nytimes?” Musk wrote on X on Tuesday in response to the New York Times‘s reporting on the fatal stabbing in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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