Elon Musk claimed on Monday that an external audit showed the X Platform, formerly known as Twitter, had “the least amount of anti-Semitism” compared to other social media platforms.
“The external audits we've done show that out of all the other social apps, X has the least amount of anti-Semitism,” Musk said in a conversation. . Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro attends the European Jewish Association (EJA) conference in Krakow, Poland.
The owner of X did not provide any additional information regarding the external audit or its results.
Musk attended the meeting after visiting the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Oświęcim, Poland, early Monday.
Since acquiring the platform then known as Twitter in October 2022, Musk has repeatedly been accused of failing to crack down on anti-Semitism on the social media site, and he himself has been accused of failing to crack down on anti-Semitism. He also faced accusations.
In late November, Musk sparked a backlash after a post about X appeared to support anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
The controversy was quickly followed by a series of reports by the liberal watchdog group Media Matters for America, which found that ads for mainstream brands were running next to pro-Nazi and white supremacist content on the platform. .
As a result, several major advertisers stopped spending on X, including Disney, Apple, IBM, Comcast, Lionsgate, Warner Bros. Discovery, Sony Pictures, and Paramount. In response, Musk told advertisers to “get rid of yourself.”
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