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<p>Days after<a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-boosts-antisemitic-propaganda-twitter-anti-defamation-league-1234817008/"> boosting an antisemitic campaign</a> to ban the Anti-Defamation League from X, owner and self-described <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/10/08/1127689351/elon-musk-calls-himself-a-free-speech-absolutist-what-could-twitter-look-like-un">“free-speech absolutist”</a> Elon Musk proposed polling the social media platform’s users on booting the civil rights advocacy group from the site formerly known as Twitter.</p>
<p>“Perhaps we should run a poll on this?” Musk <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1698061633686311073?s=20">tweeted</a> on Saturday afternoon, responding to a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Vlaardingerbroek">hard-right pundit</a> boasting that #BanTheADL was trending. </p>
<p>The initial impetus behind the campaign appears to be a meeting ADL president Jonathan Greenblatt had with Twitter/X CEO Linda Yaccarino about addressing the rampant hate speech on the site. After Greenblatt <a href="https://twitter.com/JGreenblattADL/status/1696908233317769427">tweeted</a> about their “very frank + productive conversation,” a <a href="https://forward.com/fast-forward/559394/ban-adl-twitter-campaign-musk/">number of prominent right-wing accounts</a> pushed the hashtag #BanTheADL while claiming the group was stifling free speech.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-ponders-twitter-poll-on-banning-adl-from-free-speech-site-after-bantheadl-trends">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->
Days after boosting an antisemitic campaign to ban the Anti-Defamation League from X, owner and self-described “free-speech absolutist” Elon Musk proposed polling the social media platform’s users on booting the civil rights advocacy group from the site formerly known as Twitter.
“Perhaps we should run a poll on this?” Musk tweeted on Saturday afternoon, responding to a hard-right pundit boasting that #BanTheADL was trending.
The initial impetus behind the campaign appears to be a meeting ADL president Jonathan Greenblatt had with Twitter/X CEO Linda Yaccarino about addressing the rampant hate speech on the site. After Greenblatt tweeted about their “very frank + productive conversation,” a number of prominent right-wing accounts pushed the hashtag #BanTheADL while claiming the group was stifling free speech.
