Elon Musk shared, then eliminated X post at all from Hitler, Stalin and Mao de Genocide

Early Friday, Elon Musk shared a publication written by an x user on the actions of three dictators of the twentieth century, then eliminated it quickly after it caused a violent reaction.

The post falsely affirmed that Joseph Stalin, the communist leader of the Soviet Union until 1953; Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi party in Germany; and Mao Zedong, the founder of the People's Republic of China, did not cause the death of millions of people under their surveillance. Instead, said the post, its public sector workers did.

Mr. Musk shared the publication without any other comment. He eliminated it shortly after users in x criticized the publication, saying that it was an anti -Semitic and derogatory of the genocide. Historians have widely reported that millions of people died under Stalin in the 1950s, that millions of Jews were massacred under Hitler during the Holocaust, and that millions of Chinese were displaced or killed during the cultural revolution of Mao.

It was Mr. Musk's latest publication to become controversy. In 2023, Mr. Musk supported an anti -Semitic publication about x as “the real truth” of what the Jews were doing, which led advertisers to flee. And after an attempt to murder against Mr. Trump last year, Musk wrote, then eliminated, a position that suggested that it was strange that no one had tried to kill former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. or former Vice President Kamala Harris.

Musk has seemed for a long time to favor strong men and has promoted modern right leaders. He has repeatedly used x to support politicians such as Javier Milei from Argentina, Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil and Narendra Modi de India, leaders in countries where they also have commercial interests. More recently, he gave his support behind the right -wing alternative for the German party, organizing an online City Council for his chancellor candidate.

“It is deeply disturbing and irresponsible for someone with a large public platform to raise the type of rhetoric that serves to undermine the seriousness of these problems,” said the anti-defamation league in a statement on the exchange of Mr. Musk's post.

Mr. Musk did not respond to a request for comments.

Mr. Musk frequently uses x as a megaphone to share everything, from youth memes to the main proposals for US policies, expelling their opinions to its more than 219 million followers. But their views are attracting more scrutiny since it has become a nearby advisor to President Trump that helps review government spending.

Mr. Musk has transformed x, eliminating many rules around the hate discourse and misinformation and allowing thousands of accounts prohibited by the company's previous leadership for problem publications to return to the platform, including Mr. Trump.

Around 2:30 am on Friday, Mr. Musk shared the publication written by an x user who said: “Stalin, Hitler and Mao did not murder millions of people. His public sector workers did it. “

Mr. Musk in recent weeks has fought with public sector workers in Washington as part of his work with his cost reduction initiative, known as the government's efficiency department. He has accused federal workers trying to hide fraud and encouraged them to leave their jobs.

The post caused a violent reaction of federal employee unions, among others.

“The United States public service workers, our nurses, teachers, firefighters, librarians, chose to make our communities safe, healthy and strong to enrich themselves. They are not, as implies by the richest man in the world, genocidal murderers, ”said Lee Saunders, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, in a statement.

Mr. Musk shared several comments on x defending the accusations of anti -Semitism and affirming that his critics were those aligned with Nazism. Mr. Musk was also recently criticized for making a gesture that looked like Roman greeting, which is also known as the “fascist greeting” and was then adopted by the Nazis.

“Look what President @realdonaldtrump did,” Musk wrote in a publication. “He was loved by the Democrats until he ran for president. Now they call it Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, etc. And they try to kill him ”, referring to another dictator, the Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini.