Elon Musk apologized for supporting an antisemitic post on X but insulted departing advertisers, leading to Disney and Apple suspending ads.

As someone who once fled real antisemitic regimes, I do not find much comfort in apologies that come only after public outrage and financial risk appear. Conspiracy theories about Jews controlling society have never been harmless chatter; they are the mathematical seeds of violence. When a platform that reaches millions amplifies such ideas, it changes the boundary conditions for what people think is acceptable. If he truly understands that, he will treat this not as a PR problem with advertisers but as a moral problem with how his system rewards the darkest patterns in human behavior.

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