Elon Musk is embroiled in a fresh anti-Semitism row after he was accused of endorsing a Twitter post that said Jewish people hold “hatred against whites”.
The post said: “Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of dialectic hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.”
Mr Musk, who owns the social media platform, responded with: “You have said the actual truth.”
The billionaire Twitter chief executive subsequently attacked the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a group that campaigns against anti-Semitism.
Mr Musk said the group “unjustly attacks the majority of the West”, adding: “I am deeply offended by ADL’s messaging and any other groups who push de facto anti-white racism or anti-Asian racism or racism of any kind.”
Activists accused Mr Musk of endorsing anti-Semitic content.
Amy Spitalnick, of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, said: “This increasingly normalised anti-Semitism makes all of us less safe.”
Michael Edison Hayden, of the group Hatewatch, said Mr Musk had promoted “legit white supremacist material”.
The ADL has led calls to boycott advertising on Twitter, now known as X, over claims it is failing to tackle hate speech.
Since taking over Twitter last year, Mr Musk has cut back the social network’s moderation staff and reinstated thousands of accounts previously banned for hate speech.
The billionaire has also blamed the ADL for a 60pc slump in advertising sales and has threatened to sue the organisation for lost revenue.
Accused by one user of generalising Jewish people through his criticism, Mr Musk said it was “right that this does not extend to all Jewish communities, but it is also not just limited to the ADL”.
Mr Musk also previously recommended users of Twitter follow an account posting news from the fighting in Gaza that had promoted anti-semitic content. He later deleted the Tweet.
The billionaire has previously said he is “pro-free speech, but against anti-Semitism of any kind”.
The Telegraph contacted Twitter for comment.