All in a twitter about Elon Musk

 

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk is pictured as he attends the start of the production at Tesla's "Gigafactory" in Berlin, Mar. 22, 2022.

(JTA) - Let's get one thing out of the way: Elon Musk is not Jewish.

But his acquisition of Twitter comes amid longstanding problems with antisemitism and hate speech on the platform - and Jewish users fear his free-speech orientation could make things worse.

Musk's purchase of the social media company, for a reported $44 billion, will likely take months to complete and could be derailed in any number of ways. And while the serial entrepreneur is known for acting quickly and decisively - sometimes on matters far more picayune than CEOs typically attend to - there's no guarantee that he wou...



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