Elon Musk, who has been accused of allowing antisemitic messages on his social media platform, X, visited the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp on Monday. <\/p>\n
Musks visit to the most notorious site of the horrors of the Holocaust came before a scheduled appearance later Monday at a conference on antisemitism organised by the European Jewish Association in the nearby Polish city of Krakow. <\/p>\n
The billionaire has faced accusations from the Anti-Defamation League, a prominent Jewish civil rights organisation, and others of tolerating antisemitic messages on the platform, formerly known as Twitter, since purchasing it in 2022. <\/p>\n
He sparked an outcry in November, including from the White House, when he responded on X to a user who accused Jews of hating non-Jewish white people and professing indifference to antisemitism by posting, You have said the actual truth. <\/p>\n
He later apologised for the comment, calling it the dumbest post that hes ever done. <\/p>\n
Several big brands, including Disney and IBM, stopped advertising on the platform last year after liberal advocacy group Media Matters said that their ads were appearing alongside pro-Nazi content and white nationalist posts. <\/p>\n
X has since sued Media Matters, saying the Washington-based non-profit manufactured the report to drive advertisers from the platform and destroy X Corp. <\/p>\n
Musk was photographed visiting the Birkenau site together with Jewish right-wing podcaster Ben Shapiro, who is set to attend the EJA conference. <\/p>\n
Birkenau is a village near Oswiecim, in southern Poland, fenced off with barbed wire, where wooden barracks for the prisoners and the ruins of a gas chamber endure as evidence of Nazi crimes, and where a monument to the victims stands. International ceremonies are held there each year. <\/p>\n
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Musk had been expected to make the visit on Tuesday and take part in a memorial service, together with political figures attending the EJA conference in Krakow, but showed up at the Nazi death camp on Monday instead. <\/p>\n
Due to schedule concerns, before Elon Musks arrival to the European Jewish Association conference, he took part in a private visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau with EJA chairman Rabbi Menachem Margolin, Ben Shapiro and Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, the EJA said in an email. <\/p>\n
Musk laid a wreath at the wall of death and took part in a short memorial ceremony and service by the Birkenau memorial. <\/p>\n
Musk was set to discuss antisemitism online with Shapiro at the conference in Krakow, which was held before International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27. <\/p>\n
More than 1.1 million people were murdered by the Nazis and their henchmen at Auschwitz during World War II. <\/p>\n
Most who were killed were Jews, but the victims also included Poles, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war, and others. <\/p>\n
In all, about 6 million European Jews died during the Holocaust. When the Soviets liberated the camp, they found about 7,000 survivors. <\/p>\n
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