“To see regardless of his intent, feed this segment - comparing him to a Jewish supervillain, claiming Soros ‘hates humanity’ - is not just distressing, it’s dangerous: it will embolden extremists who already contrive anti-Jewish conspiracies and have tried to attack Soros and Jewish communities as a result.”) “Soros often is held up by the far-right, using antisemitic tropes, as the source of the world’s problems,” Greenblatt wrote on Twitter. Soros hates humanity.” (Musk’s comments about Soros drew a rebuke from Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt. Musk claimed that Soros does not have “good intentions”: “He wants to erode the very fabric of civilization. After Twitter’s board fought Musk’s takeover bid, it took him to court to hold him to the terms of his offer: “Basically they had a gun to my head saying, ‘No, you must acquire us!'”įaber asked Musk about the tech mogul’s tweets that lend credence to conspiracy theories, including Musk’s Monday evening tweet in which he said, “Soros reminds me of Magneto,” likening billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros to Marvel’s Jewish supervillain from the X-Men series. “My skills and interests are in technology.”Ībout the dire financial situation the company was facing, Musk said, “It was really a very challenging situation when the Twitter deal closed.” He said the company had negative $3 billion cash flow and just $1 billion in cash on hand. “Twitter is very much an advertising-dependent business, and Linda is obviously great at that,” Musk said. Musk spoke about Linda Yaccarino, the ex-NBCUniversal exec he just hired as CEO of Twitter, joining the company, saying that “Linda will operate the company and I will build products.”
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