Elon Musk told CNBC's David Faber on Tuesday that if his inflammatory tweets scare away advertisers from Twitter, he will accept that.
"I'll say what I want, and if the consequence of that is losing money, so be it," said Musk, who owns Twitter.
Musk replied defensively as Faber pressed him over a tweet Monday night in which he likened liberal billionaire George Soros to X-Men villain Magneto, a Jewish Holocaust survivor.
Soros, who is also Jewish, is a favorite target of right wing pundits and politicians and often the subject of anti-Semitic attacks.
For years, Musk has tweeted controversial items, including conspiracy theories and comments his critics have called broadly discriminatory.