Elon Musk defended his controversial tweets in an interview with CNBC’s David Faber on Tuesday. He stated that he doesn’t care if his tweets scare away potential Tesla buyers or Twitter advertisers. “I’ll say what I want, and if the consequence of that is losing money, so be it,” said Musk, who owns Twitter.
Musk has been known to tweet controversial items, including conspiracy theories and comments that his critics have called broadly discriminatory. His defense came after he received renewed criticism for a tweet in which he compared liberal billionaire and Democratic donor George Soros to X-Men villain Magneto, a Jewish Holocaust survivor. “He wants to erode the very fabric of civilization. Soros hates humanity,” Musk tweeted on Monday.
Musk has previously criticized Soros, whose family office, Soros Fund Management, recently cut its stake in Tesla. Soros, who is also Jewish, is a favorite target of right-wing pundits and politicians and often the subject of anti-Semitic attacks. Soros and his family escaped the Nazis during World War II.
2023-05-16 19:49:30
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