Article 69914 Elon Musk backs Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams following racist tirade

Elon Musk backs Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams following racist tirade

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Ed Pilkington
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Tesla and Twitter chief tweets that the media is racist' after hundreds of newspapers drop Adams's comic strip

Elon Musk has deployed his 130 million-follower Twitter bullhorn to come to the rescue of a beleaguered cartoonist dumped by hundreds of newspapers across America for having delivered a virulent racist tirade.

The Twitter and Tesla chief responded with his own controversial thought stream over the weekend after the mass termination of the Dilbert comic strip from US newspaper titles. Its creator, Scott Adams, recently denigrated Black people as a hate group", advising white people to just get the hell away" from them.

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