The meeting between the president and the tech entrepreneur became known on Sunday evening through a statement from the president’s office. In the statement, Isaac Herzog says he will meet with Elon Musk to discuss the need to combat anti-Semitism spread on the Internet. Several human rights groups have accused X, formerly Twitter, of helping to spread hatred against Jews, according to Reuters. In mid-November, the Biden administration joined the criticism. It happened after Musk wrote “You have told the actual truth” to a user who, among other things, accused Jews of spreading hatred against whites. Elon Musk himself claims he is “in favor of freedom of expression, but against all forms of anti-Semitism”. To meet the family of hostages According to the Israeli presidential office, Musk is also to meet relatives of some of the hostages that Hamas abducted during the attack on Israel on 7 October. – They will talk about the horrors of Hamas’ terrorist attack on 7 October and the ongoing pain and uncertainty for the hostages, the statement says. Meeting with Netanyahu? According to the Israeli TV channel 12, Musk will also meet the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, but this has not been confirmed. Netanyahu met with Musk on September 18 at the Tesla headquarters in California. He then asked Musk to strike a balance between protecting free speech and fighting hate speech. The debate then raged for several weeks about X too easily allowing messages with anti-Semitic content. Musk then replied that he was against anything that could encourage hatred and conflict. And he that he himself is against all forms of anti-Semitism. Major American companies, such as Walt Disney, Warner Bros Discovery and Comcast, have temporarily stopped advertising on X as a result of the controversies.
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