Elon Musk owner of "X", the social network formally known as Twitter, retweeted a post claiming that the "attacks" by the media against Elon Musk for antisemitism are backed by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
Musk retweeted Mario Nawfal, the host of The Roundtable Show, one of the largest Twitter Spaces on the platform. Spaces is an audio format for Twitter allowing real-time conversations to happen.
Musk called Nawfal's tweet "accurate".
Accurate https://t.co/Om4u0yJ4tK
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 9, 2023
Nawfal's tweet describes several headlines from various news sites that criticize Musk's handling of antisemitism on X.
Without citing any sources Nawfal claims that "an independent research firm found 'more than 99% of content users and advertisers see on Twitter is healthy,'” as well as claiming that Twitter overestimated the amount of hate speech impressions on the site by nearly 4 times (0.003% vs Twitter's 0.012%).
Nawfal also claimed that all the metrics showed that "the platform is breaking records (Monthly Users, User Minutes Per Day, Video Views)", however, no source was provided here either making it impossible to verify.
His response to the ADL being called a civil rights group was to post a laughing emoji.
X's new policy
The day before X published a statement titled "Our ongoing commitment to combat antisemitism on X", in which "X Safety" highlights that they have expanded their violent and hateful entities policy, refreshed policies around violent speech, and updated their abusive behavior policy.
They also specify that they are adding new slurs, harmful terms, and phrases to their operational handbook, in particular members of the Jewish community.
The new update to the policy was published the same day as Elon Musk published his tweet telling the Anti-Defamation League to drop the "anti-" from its name, it is unclear whether the two are related and which came first.