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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Technology
Nick Robins-Early

Elon Musk posted about race almost every day in January

Elon Musk speaks during the World Economic Forum  in Davos on 22 January 2026.
Elon Musk speaks during the World Economic Forum in Davos on 22 January 2026. Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images

Elon Musk’s longtime fixation on a white racial majority is intensifying. The richest man in the world posted about how the white race was under threat, made allusions to race science or promoted anti-immigrant conspiracy content on 26 out of 31 days in January, according to the Guardian’s analysis of his social media output. The posts, made on his platform X, reflect a renewed embrace of what extremism experts describe as white supremacist material.

“Whites are a rapidly dying minority,” Musk said on 22 January, a short time before taking the stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos, while reposting an Irish anti-immigrant influencer’s video about demographic change.

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