Twitter CEO Says Platform Is Fighting Antisemitism a Day After Owner Elon Musk Endorsed It

Linda Yaccarino continues to act as though her boss isn’t actively pushing the site toward right-wing extremism Not even 24 hours transpired between Elon Musk endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory on X, formerly Twitter, and his appointed CEO of the company, Linda Yaccarino, declaring that the site has made “efforts to combat antisemitism and discrimination.” Predictably, her tweet was met with a deluge of replies pointing out that the platform’s owner — her boss — has done as much as anyone to amplify white nationalist ideology online. On Wednesday, Musk engaged in a thread that began with X user @CWBOCA sharing a PSA from the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism, in which a father confronts his son for posting “Hitler was right” on social media. “To the cowards hiding behind the anonymity of the internet and posting ‘Hitler was right,’” the user wrote in the tweet. “You got something you want to say? Why don’t you say it to our faces.” To this, another user, @breakingbaht, replied: “Okay. Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.” The post went on to claim that Jewish populations
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