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☆ Elon Musk vs Australia: Fight heats up over Sydney church stabbing video on X
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( Hilary Whiteman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

The country’s e-safety commissioner ordered social media giants to take it down. Australia wants X to remove the video completely, not just hide it from Australian users who could circumvent a local ban by using virtual private networks. With her message to Musk, Australian Senator Jacqui Lambie posted an image of herself in army fatigues taken at a Veteran Mentors' Junior Leadership camp in January. President David Adler told CNN he hadn’t been asked to take it down, either by X or Australia’s e-safety commissioner. In a statement Wednesday, Australia’s eSafety commissioner said the takedown request wasn’t designed to stifle discussion about the church attack.

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☆ Lawyers seek nearly $6 billion in Tesla stock after getting Musk pay package struck down
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-02 | by ( David Ingram | Lora Kolodny | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

The lawyers had earlier convinced the Delaware chancery court to revoke Musk's $56 billion pay package from 2018, with the judge ruling that Tesla's board of directors failed to prove it was fair to shareholders. The lawyers represent former heavy metal drummer Richard Tornetta, who filed the suit on behalf of his fellow Tesla investors. The lawyers are asking for just over 11% of the Tesla shares that would have gone to Musk, or slightly more than 29.4 million shares. Taking their pay in Tesla shares demonstrates they are prepared to "eat our cooking," the lawyers wrote. Musk's pay package was the largest ever disclosed in corporate America, according to Delaware Chancery Court Judge Kathaleen McCormick's 200-page ruling.

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☆ Elon Musk tells audience he is 'Jewish by association' following Auschwitz tour
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk attended a conference held by the European Jewish Association on Monday. "I have twice as many Jewish friends as non-Jewish friends," he told Ben Shapiro. The European Jewish Association organized the trip and held a conference later on Monday in the nearby Polish city of Krakow. Advertisement"I have twice as many Jewish friends as non-Jewish friends," Musk said as Shapiro laughed in the background. AdvertisementFollowing the row with the ADL, Musk described himself as "aspirationally Jewish" to Shapiro in a September X space.

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KRAKOW, Poland (AP) — 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. Musk laid a wreath at the wall of death and took part in a short memorial ceremony and service by the Birkenau memorial,” the EJA said in an email. Musk was set to discuss antisemitism online with Shapiro at the conference in Krakow, which was held before International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27. More than 1.1 million people were murdered by the Nazis and their henchmen at Auschwitz during World War II. Most who were killed were Jews, but the victims also included Poles, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war, and others.

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☆ Elon Musk visits Auschwitz two months after uproar over antisemitic messages on X
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-22 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Elon Musk has faced accusations of tolerating antisemitic messages on his X platform. Musk sparked an outcry when he called a post that accused Jews of hating white people "the actual truth." More than 1.1 million people were murdered by Nazis and their henchmen at Auschwitz during World War II. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. AdvertisementKRAKOW, Poland — Tesla CEO 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.

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☆ Elon Musk claims X has less antisemitic content than peers, following visit to Auschwitz
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-22 | by ( Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN —Elon Musk — who was widely criticized for an antisemitic post on his social media site, X, two months ago — said following a visit to Auschwitz Monday that X has less antisemitic content than other social media platforms. Musk made the comments during an interview at a conference hosted by the European Jewish Association near the site of the Auschwitz in Poland. It comes after Musk faced a firestorm of backlash over antisemitic content on X, including a post with an antisemitic conspiracy theory that Musk himself amplified (and later apologized for in the wake of condemnation.) Musk later apologized for the post, but told advertisers who halted their spending on X over concerns about antisemitic content to “go f**k” themselves. As part of Monday’s event, the billionaire appears to have made a visit to Auschwitz along with his young son.

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☆ Elon Musk took his kid along to Auschwitz, ignoring guidance to leave young children at home
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-22 | by ( Kieran Corcoran | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewElon Musk visited Auschwitz on Monday — and he brought his kid with him. It's unclear exactly what Musk and X did at the site beyond what we see in the photos. A BBC article said Musk undertook a "private visit" where he laid a wreath and took part in a memorial service. AdvertisementMusk is engaged in a long-running dispute over the custody of X with the boy's mother, Grimes.

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“It’s unbelievable that 80 years after Nazi times, we go back to such times and have antisemitic acts here, in the center of Europe,” Engelmayer told CNN. “That’s not the life we want.”Swastikas were sprayed on the walls outside the Vienna cemetery. Georg Hochmuth/APA/AFP/Getty Images‘The scale is completely different’The spike in antisemitic attacks in Europe has been wide-reaching. In London, the first week after Hamas’ attacks saw a 1,353% rise in antisemitic incidents, the Metropolitan Police reported. Not to go to places which are considered Jewish, like a synagogue.”But alongside the fear, the rise in antisemitic incidents has been met with defiance.

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☆ Adidas’s Sale of Yeezy Sneakers Brings in 400 Million Euros
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Melissa Eddy | More About Melissa Eddy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

The Yeezy sales added €150 million to Adidas’s operating profit for the first half the year, “an incremental amount,” the sportswear maker said. And Adidas reported a steeply lower operating profit for the half-year: €236 million, versus €828 million a year earlier. Adidas began selling its first batch of its remaining Yeezy shoe models in June. But Mr. Gulden refused to elaborate on how much the rapper was making from the sales. Adidas said it has set aside €110 million of its proceeds from the first sale of the Yeezy inventory to donate to organizations.

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