Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the microblogging social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
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Fast Forward Elon Musk expresses regret for endorsing antisemitic post but swears at advertisers boycotting X over it
Speaking at a New York Times event, the mogul also claimed Jewish groups have funded Hamas and called himself “philosemitic"
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Fast Forward After backlash over silence, UN Women tweets, then deletes, statement condemning Hamas attack in Israel
Word quickly spread among Jewish women activists and Israelis, reigniting their criticism of UN Women as holding a double standard when it comes to gender-based violence against Israeli women
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Fast Forward Elon Musk, under fire for antisemitism on X, visits Israel and tours ravaged kibbutz with Benjamin Netanyahu
Musk’s visit comes as he faces criticism for letting antisemitism and Oct. 7 misinformation spread on X, his social media platform
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Fast Forward Elon Musk says he’ll donate X ad revenue to hospitals in Israel and Gaza as advertisers flee over antisemitism
Musk did not detail his donation plans. He has faced blowback for endorsing antisemitic content and failing to curb Hamas material
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Fast Forward After uproar, NY State Sen. Julia Salazar fires staffer who endorsed Hamas attack
“I don’t condemn Hamas, I condemn Israel,” Salazar’s communications and policy director, Sarah Campbell, had written in a now-deleted post on X
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Fast Forward Why ADL chief Jonathan Greenblatt is praising Elon Musk as advertisers flee X over antisemitism
Greenblatt condemned Musk’s promotion of an antisemitic conspiracy theory, then praised him a day later for “fighting hate"
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Fast Forward IBM pulls its ads from Twitter/X after Elon Musk calls an antisemitic post the ‘actual truth’
This was Musk's most explicit endorsement of antisemitism to date
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Fast Forward Elon Musk on antisemitic great replacement theory post: ‘You have said the actual truth’
The X CEO posted approvingly of a dangerous canard
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