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White House slams Elon Musk’s ‘abhorrent’ promotion of anti-Semitism

X owner Elon Musk has previously used far-right rhetoric about immigration [File: Andrew Kelly/Reuters]

The White House has condemned Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and owner of the social media site X formerly known as Twitter, for promoting a “hideous” anti-Semitic conspiracy theory on his platform.

Speaking to reporters on Friday, White House spokesman Andrew Bates criticised Musk for calling an anti-Jewish tweet, which accused Jews of undermining Western civilisation through support for immigration, “the actual truth”.

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