Elon Musk stepped in it again over the weekend, elevating the hater-driven hashtag #BanTheADL because he’s peeved at how the Anti-Defamation League joined the lefty drive to kill Twitter’s advertis…
over the weekend, elevating the hater-driven hashtag #BanTheADL because he’s peeved at how the Anti-Defamation League joined the lefty drive to kill Twitter’s advertising sales after he took over vowing to fully respect free speech.He quasi-apologized with a later tweet, “To be super clear, I’m pro free speech, but against antisemitism of any kind” — beforewith talk of suing the ADL for supposedly driving Twitter’s value down by half or maybe “less than 10% of the value destruction.
The ADL certainly has been gunning for him, releasing reports on how, e.g., he’s allowed some folks back who it finds objectionable, “although the reinstated accounts themselves rarely posted explicit antisemitic content.” The whole furor, ironically, started after ADL chief Jonathan Greenblatt broke bread last week with X’s CEO, Linda Yaccarino, to discuss the ADL’s hate-speech complaints.
Behind it all lurks Greenblatt’s highly controversial leadership of the once determinedly nonpartisan group: A former Obama aide, he
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