Key Points
Billionaire Elon Musk told advertisers that have fled his social media platform X over antisemitic content to "Go f**k yourself" in a fiery Wednesday interview...
Musk said repeatedly he was sorry for publishing a tweet on Nov. 15 that agreed with an anti-Jewish post..
On Wednesday Musk said he had "handed a loaded gun" to both detractors and antisemitic people, describing his post as possibly the worst he had made during a history of messages that included many "foolish" ones...
Hey, Bob, if you're in the audience," he added, in an apparent reference to Robert Iger, chief executive of Walt Disney, which pulled ads on X. Iger spoke earlier at the event and said that Disney felt the association with X following Musk's move "was not a positive one for us"..
Musk's comments came on the same day that U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer warned that the rise in antisemitism since the start of the Israel-Hamas war has reached a crisis point, saying it threatens the safety of Jews worldwide and the future of Israel..
