By affirming an antisemitic trope, Elon Musk sinks to a dangerous new low | Margaret Sullivan

The owner of X has the power to elevate the hateful speech of others and bring about enormous harm

When you've done as many awful things as Elon Musk has, it's challenging to outdo yourself. But the billionaire entrepreneur pulled that off this week with his endorsement of a blatantly antisemitic screed.

You have said the absolute truth," Musk responded to a social media post that read: Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them."