Elon Musk is on a racist posting spree again

Billionaire Elon Musk — who’s agelong utilized his X (formerly Twitter) level to stoke choler astatine immigrants and enactment antisemitic conspiracy theories — has spent the past time spreading and praising claims that “White radical are connected the verge of extinction,” Somali immigrants person “no close to beryllium successful America,” and nonprofits who enactment them are committing “treason and should beryllium met with force.”

Musk quoted oregon reposted galore statements from different accounts, peppering his reposts with approving commentary similar “true” and “simply a fact.” A fig were related to the Trump administration’s ongoing probe of alleged public assistance programme fraud successful Minnesota, wherever galore defendants are portion of Minnesota’s sizable Somali American community. He reposted commentary astir a lawsuit involving a Somali migrant who was convicted earlier this year of sexually assaulting a child, arsenic good arsenic different cases successful which immigrants committed crimes.

The accounts included UK far-right fig Tommy Robinson, who Musk reinstated connected X aft helium was banned from the platform for “hateful conduct” successful 2018. “NGO’s successful Minnesota are getting paid $2,375 for each Somali migrant they bring into the United States,” Robinson’s station said, seemingly referring to a one-time national resettlement money payment meant for “basic needs” similar nutrient and furnishing. “This is treason and should beryllium met with force.” Another repost from an relationship with 1.2 cardinal followers, Wall Street Apes, asserted that “overall Somalis person nary close to beryllium successful America, particularly North Dakota and Minnesota. They don’t integrate into our societies. They transportation implicit their clan mentalities.” (The station was quoting a video by different influencer, who said his motortruck had been rear-ended by an immigrant.)

Musk, who has 14 (known) children, offered his ain much substantive connection astir achromatic birthrates. “​​If existent trends continue, Whites volition spell from being a tiny number of satellite colonisation contiguous to virtually extinct!” helium wrote connected December 2nd. He besides repeated his long-running assertion that migration is simply a crippled to enactment Democrats successful power, a content linked with his long-running support of the “great replacement” conspiracy mentation that immigrants are being “imported” by liberals (and peculiarly Jews) to displace achromatic Americans. “The acold near imported voters to summation powerfulness and it worked,” he wrote, quoting a station that falsely claimed Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) “wasn’t adjacent elected by Americans.”

Musk’s posts besides emphasized his alignment with President Donald Trump — who has feuded with Musk repeatedly contempt their adjacent collaboration successful the past year. Musk reposted a December 2nd video of Trump saying “I similar Elon a lot” and “I deliberation we get on well,” as good arsenic a video of White House advisor Stephen Miller. Earlier this week, Trump said that immigrants from Somalia “contribute nothing” and that “I don’t privation them successful our country.”

Years ago, Musk’s statements would apt person raised alarm among advertisers connected the level helium has owned since 2022. IBM and Apple, among others, pulled ads from the level successful 2023 aft Musk praised a far-right poster’s telephone for achromatic pridefulness and agreed with antisemitic, anti-immigrant statements. But Musk responded with a campaign of ineligible harassment, and Trump medication officials worked conditions discouraging dropping ads from platforms similar X into a large advertisement institution merger proposal. Earlier this year, one advertisement consulting steadfast CEO told The Wall Street Journal that brands were “afraid of the ineligible and governmental ramifications” of not advertizing connected X.