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Fortune
Christiaan Hetzner

Musk risks more X advertising revenue by weighing in on diversity debate about Black people’s IQ

X owner Elon Musk (Credit: Antonio Masiello—Getty Images)

Elon Musk’s war against diversity hiring threatens to once again land him in hot water with advertisers.

The self-described “chief troll officer” of ad-dependent social media platform X tempted fate on Wednesday after agreeing with a post that suggested graduates from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) suffer from lower intelligence quotients and therefore present a statistically higher risk to life if hired to fly a passenger jet.

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