{"id":24026,"date":"2025-03-14T21:44:39","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T22:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=24026"},"modified":"2025-03-14T23:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T23:29:07","slug":"elon-musk-shared-then-deleted-x-post-absolving-hitler-stalin-and-mao-of-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=24026","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Shared, Then Deleted X Post Absolving Hitler, Stalin and Mao of Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The post falsely claimed that Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Mao Zedong were not responsible for the murders of millions of people, but rather public sector workers were.<\/p>\n

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Early on Friday, Elon Musk shared a post written by an X user about the actions of three 20th century dictators \u2014 then quickly deleted it after it sparked a backlash.<\/p>\n

The post falsely claimed that Joseph Stalin<\/a>, the communist leader of the Soviet Union until 1953; Adolf Hitler<\/a>, the leader of the Nazi party in Germany; and Mao Zedong<\/a>, the founder of the People\u2019s Republic of China, didn\u2019t cause the deaths of millions of people under their watch. Instead, the post said, their public sector workers did.<\/p>\n

Mr. Musk shared the post without any other comment. He removed it soon after users on X criticized the post, saying it was antisemitic and dismissive of genocide. Historians have widely chronicled 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 Mao\u2019s cultural revolution.<\/p>\n

It was the latest post by Mr. Musk to devolve into controversy. In 2023, Mr. Musk endorsed an antisemitic post on X<\/a> as \u201cthe actual truth\u201d of what Jewish people were doing, prompting advertisers to flee. And after an assassination attempt on Mr. Trump last year, Mr. Musk wrote \u2014 then deleted \u2014 a post suggesting it was odd<\/a> that nobody had tried to kill former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. or former Vice President Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr. Musk has long appeared to favor strongmen and has promoted right wing modern-day leaders. He has repeatedly used X to support politicians<\/a> like Javier Milei of Argentina, Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil and Narendra Modi of India, leaders in countries where he also has business interests. Most recently, he threw his support<\/a> behind the hard-right Alternative for Germany party, hosting an online town hall<\/a> for its candidate for chancellor.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is deeply disturbing and irresponsible for someone with a large public platform to elevate the kind of rhetoric that serves to undermine the seriousness of these issues,\u201d the Anti-Defamation League said in a statement about Mr. Musk\u2019s sharing of the post.<\/p>\n

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The post falsely claimed that Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Mao Zedong were not responsible for the murders of millions of people, but rather public sector workers were.Early on Friday, Elon Musk shared a post written by an X user about the actions of three 20th century dictators \u2014 then quickly deleted it after it sparked a backlash.The post falsely claimed 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\u2019s Republic of China, didn\u2019t cause the deaths of millions of people under their watch. Instead, the post said, their public sector workers did.Mr. Musk shared the post without any other comment. He removed it soon after users on X criticized the post, saying it was antisemitic and dismissive of genocide. Historians have widely chronicled 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 Mao\u2019s cultural revolution.It was the latest post by Mr. Musk to devolve into controversy. In 2023, Mr. Musk endorsed an antisemitic post on X as \u201cthe actual truth\u201d of what Jewish people were doing, prompting advertisers to flee. And after an assassination attempt on Mr. Trump last year, Mr. Musk wrote \u2014 then deleted \u2014 a post suggesting it was odd that nobody had tried to kill former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. or former Vice President Kamala Harris.Mr. Musk has long appeared to favor strongmen and has promoted right wing modern-day leaders. He has repeatedly used X to support politicians like Javier Milei of Argentina, Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil and Narendra Modi of India, leaders in countries where he also has business interests. Most recently, he threw his support behind the hard-right Alternative for Germany party, hosting an online town hall for its candidate for chancellor.\u201cIt is deeply disturbing and irresponsible for someone with a large public platform to elevate the kind of rhetoric that serves to undermine the seriousness of these issues,\u201d the Anti-Defamation League said in a statement about Mr. Musk\u2019s sharing of the post.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24028,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24029,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24026\/revisions\/24029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}