White House Condemns Musk, IBM Pulls Ads Over 'Antisemitic’ Post

Elon Musk’s “promotion of Antisemitic and racist hate” on X is “abhorrent” and “unacceptable,” White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said Friday. Musk earlier in the week agreed with a post on his platform X claiming Jewish communities “have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.” Musk responded to the post, saying, “You have said the actual truth.” Bates said it’s “unacceptable to repeat the hideous lie behind the most fatal act of Antisemitism in American history at any time, let alone one month after the deadliest day for Jewish people since the Holocaust.” President Joe Biden and the administration will “continue to condemn Antisemitism at every turn.” IBM suspended advertising on the platform Friday. IBM "has zero tolerance for hate speech and discrimination and we have immediately suspended all advertising on X while we investigate this entirely unacceptable situation," the company said. Apple, Comcast, NBCUniversal and the European Commission also reportedly suspended advertising. They didn’t comment Friday. X responded to a request for comment Friday with an automatic reply: “Busy now, please check back later.” X CEO Linda Yaccarino said Thursday the platform has been “extremely clear about our efforts to combat antisemitism and discrimination. There's no place for it anywhere in the world -- it's ugly and wrong. Full stop.”