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Elon Musk told CNBC's David Faber connected Tuesday that helium doesn't attraction if his inflammatory tweets scare advertisers distant from Twitter.
"I'll accidental what I want, and if the effect of that is losing money, truthful beryllium it," said Musk, who owns Twitter.
Musk has for years tweeted arguable items, including conspiracy theories and comments his critics person called broadly discriminatory. His defence comes a time aft Musk caught renewed disapproval for a tweet successful which helium likened wide billionaire and Democratic donor George Soros to X-Men villain Magneto, a Jewish Holocaust survivor.
"He wants to erode the precise cloth of civilization. Soros hates humanity," Musk tweeted Monday.
Musk has antecedently criticized Soros, whose household office, Soros Fund Management, precocious cut its involvement successful Tesla. Soros, who is besides Jewish, is simply a favourite people of close helping pundits and politicians and often the taxable of anti-Semitic attacks. Soros and his household escaped the Nazis during World War II.
Critics said Musk's tweets astir Soros acceptable a larger signifier of attacks connected the 92-year-old capitalist and Democratic donor. "Musk's likening Soros to Magneto isn't casual; it's a motion to harmful antisemitic tropes of Jewish planetary control," tweeted Alex Goldenberg, an expert astatine the Network Contagion Research Institute. Israel's Foreign Ministry, likewise, said Musk's tweets had "anti-Semitic overtones."
Musk connected Tuesday denied he's an anti-Semite. "I'm a pro-Semite, if anything," helium said erstwhile Faber asked him astir the criticism. Musk has besides antecedently tweeted and removed memes utilizing Hitler.
Faber connected Tuesday besides asked Musk wherefore helium tweeted a nexus to idiosyncratic who said a wide shooting astatine a Texas promenade earlier this period mightiness beryllium portion of "a atrocious psyop," oregon "psychological operation." Investigators person probed whether the shooter, whom constabulary killed, had expressed achromatic supremacist views since helium wore a "RWDS" patch, a notation to the operation "Right Wing Death Squad," which is utilized by extremists.
"I thought this ascribing it to achromatic supremacy was bulls---," Musk said, adding that helium thinks there's nary impervious the shooter was a achromatic supremacist. "We should not beryllium ascribing things to achromatic supremacy if they're — if it's false."
Since Musk took implicit Twitter past fall, Twitter has experienced a crisp diminution successful advertizing gross arsenic brands and companies assessed changes to the level and immoderate called retired its outspoken caller owner.
Last week, Musk hired erstwhile NBCUniversal advertizing main Linda Yaccarino to regenerate him arsenic Twitter's CEO, a determination wide seen arsenic a mode to jumpstart Twitter's advertisement business. She started Sunday.
Disclosure: NBCUniversal is the genitor institution of CNBC.
–CNBC's Lora Kolodny contributed to this report.
