Social media company X’s platform has less antisemitic content compared with other applications, according to audits it has commissioned, X owner Elon Musk said on January 22 at a conference on combating antisemitism.
Musk did not say who performed the audit or share any details from the report.
Earlier in the day, Musk visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau site of a former Nazi German concentration camp, before appearing at the conference in the southern Polish city of Krakow, which addressed the rise in antisemitism since the Israel-Hamas conflict started in October.
The X platform has come under fire in recent months and has seen some major advertisers pause spending or flee since Musk late last year agreed with an X user who espoused an antisemitic conspiracy theory.
Musk said on Monday that free speech was still the social media platform’s general bias and that falsehoods being pushed should be corrected.
The Krakow event, organized by the European Jewish Association (EJA), focussed on the “disconcerting surge of anti-Semitism in Europe” since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in October.
When asked about balancing free speech and tackling hate speech, Musk said the platform favoured free speech.
“I think at the end of the day free speech wins, in that if somebody says something false, especially on our platform, you can then reply to it with a correction,” he said.
“So if somebody tries to push a falsehood, like Holocaust denial, they can immediately be corrected. And you can’t get rid of the tag.”
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