Elon Musk, the former adviser to President Donald Trump and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has called for the Southern Poverty Law Center to be “shut down.”
Musk called the organization “evil” and said it persistently spreads “hate.” The former head of the Department of Government Efficiency commented on X on Thursday morning, quoting a post from right-wing political commentator and social media personality Mike Cernovich.
“The SPLC is an evil organization that spreads hate propaganda relentlessly,” Musk posted. “It needs to be shut down.”
This is not the first time he has expressed disdain for the SPLC. He has been highly critical of the left-wing advocacy organization in recent years.
In May 2025, the SPLC listed Turning Point USA on its “2024 Year in Hate and Extremism Report.” The SPLC described Turning Point as a “well-funded, hard-right organization with links to Southern Poverty Law Center-identified hard-right extremists and a tremendous amount of influence in conservative politics.”
The Turning Point USA founder and the CEO at the time, Charlie Kirk, condemned the report and classification of his group.
“The SPLC has added Turning Point to their ridiculous ‘hate group’ list, right next to the KKK and neo-Nazis, a cheap smear from a washed-up org that’s been fleecing scared grandmas for decades,” Kirk said. “They somehow still rake in over $100 million a year peddling their ‘hate map’ nonsense, sitting pretty in their Montgomery ‘Poverty Palace’ while crying about ‘hate’ to line their pockets. Even former staffers called their racket a ‘con.’”
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Musk commented on Kirk’s post, calling the SPLC a “scam organization.”
In November 2024, Seth Dillon, CEO of the satire site the Babylon Bee, commented on X about the SPLC planning to release a report doxing several of his staff members. In response, Musk again criticized the SPLC.
“The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is a criminal organization [in my opinion],” Musk posted.
