There is no record of the post on Musk's X profile. There have been no credible news reports about the supposed post from Musk.
Readers discuss the Auschwitz anniversary and a Musk speech. Also: Threats against Dr. Fauci; resign, or else; police use of tasers; aging women; an invitation to letter writers.
Musk's AfD support, followed a gesture many said resembled a Nazi salute, and came as leaders are due to observe the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz's liberation.
MSNBC hosts Nicolle Wallace and Joy Reid compared the Trump administration's deportation efforts and immigration policy to the Holocaust and Hitler's Germany on Monday.
The Amazon television series Hunters portrays a group of Nazi hunters tracking down the thousands of former Nazis who infiltrated the United States after World War II. A Nazi hunter is an individual who tracks down and gathers information on alleged former Nazis, or SS members, and Nazi collaborators who were involved in the Holocaust.
Elon Musk told a rally the German far-right AfD party, just before Holocaust Remembrance Day, that Germany should get over "past guilt."
Musk has enthusiastically backed AfD, an anti-immigrant party accused of minimizing Nazi crimes and using Nazi slogans.
The solemn commemoration came amid a worldwide spike in antisemitism and new surveys suggesting basic knowledge of the Holocaust is eroding.
In just over four-and-a-half years, Nazi Germany systematically murdered at least 1.1 million people at Auschwitz, built in the south of occupied Poland near the town of Oswiecim. Auschwitz was at the centre of the Nazi campaign to eradicate Europe's Jewish population, and almost one million of those who died there were Jews.
“In study after study, as well as our lived experiences, X has become a platform that promotes hate, antisemitism, and societal division. Under the leadership of Elon Musk, X has reduced content moderation, promoted white supremacists, and re-platformed purveyors of conspiracy theories.”
Elon Musk made a surprise virtual appearance at a campaign event for Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party on Saturday, telling members that they need to "move beyond" Germany's Nazi history.
The gravity-denying UFC fighter who's been praised by Tucker Carlson believes that Nazi Germany dictator Adolf Hitler "was a good guy."