Elon Musk visits site of Auschwitz concentration camp after uproar over antisemitic X post

Elon Musk on Monday visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau site of a former Nazi death camp, a move that comes after the billionaire owner of X faced a backlash for calling an antisemitic post on the social platform "the actual truth."

Musk's November endorsement of the antisemitic post prompted some top advertisers, including Apple, Comcast, Disney, IBM and Warner Bros., to pull their marketing dollars from the platform. Musk later said the decision of these companies to cut spending on X, formerly known as Twitter, could "kill the company."

Musk also came under fire from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), an advocacy group that works to combat hate against Jewish people, with the group's CEO Jonathan Greenblatt writing on X that it is "dangerous to use one's influence to validate and promote antisemitic theories."