After accusations of anti-Semitism: Elon Musk visits the former Auschwitz concentration camp

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American entrepreneur Elon Musk visited the memorial site of the former German concentration camp Auschwitz.

“It was very moving. And it is deeply sad and tragic that people can do something like that to other people,” Musk said after Monday’s visit to Krakow at a conference on online anti-Semitism organized by the Jewish Association (EJA). He will need a few days to process the impressions, Musk continued. His visit to Auschwitz was originally not scheduled until Tuesday.

As the owner of Twitter’s successor, he later spoke of a misunderstanding and apologized. Hate speech researchers also accused X of not taking sufficient action against anti-Semitic messages. Major advertisers such as Apple and Disney subsequently stopped advertising on the service.

More than a million people died in Auschwitz

In Krakow, Musk once again emphasized that the principle of freedom of expression applies to X. If someone posts a false claim, others can correct it immediately. “The tireless search for the truth is the goal of X.” If social media and freedom of speech had existed at the time of Auschwitz, it would have been impossible to cover up this crime, Musk said.

The name Auschwitz has been burned into the world’s consciousness as a synonym for the Holocaust and the epitome of evil. There alone, the National Socialists murdered more than a million people, mainly Jews. Throughout Europe they murdered about six million Jews during the Shoah. (SDA)

Source: Blick