JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet billionaire businessman Elon Musk throughout a visit to america subsequent week, the Israeli chief’s workplace mentioned Thursday.
Netanyahu’s workplace mentioned their assembly, which is scheduled for Monday, will embody discussions about artificial intelligence. It comes at a time when Musk is going through accusations of tolerating antisemitic messages on his social media platform X, previously generally known as Twitter.
The Anti-Defamation League, a outstanding Jewish civil-rights group, has accused Musk of permitting antisemitism and hate speech to unfold on X. Its director, Jonathan Greenblatt, mentioned Musk had “amplified” the messages of neo-Nazis and white supremacists who need to ban the league by participating with them just lately on X.
In a Sept. 4 submit, Musk claimed that the league was “making an attempt to kill this platform by falsely accusing it & me of being anti-Semitic.” In different posts, he mentioned the league was liable for a 60% drop in income at X and mentioned his firm would have “no selection” however to file a defamation lawsuit towards the group.
“Oh the irony!” he wrote. As of Thursday, he has not adopted by way of on this menace.
X, nevertheless, did file a lawsuit towards one other group that has studied the proliferation of hate speech on the platform.
In August, it sued the nonprofit Heart for Countering Digital Hate, accusing it of violating X’s phrases of service by improperly gathering an unlimited quantity of information for its evaluation. The lawsuit claims the group’s analysis highlighting a rise in hate speech on the previous Twitter since Musk took over value the corporate hundreds of thousands of {dollars} of promoting income.
However analysts who observe Twitter have argued that Musk’s chaotic modifications to the platform — together with jettisoning its well-known model identify — have led to a decline in curiosity from advertisers.
Greenblatt says his group is “keen to work” with X and final week met with the corporate’s chief govt, Linda Yaccarino. Each Musk and Yaccarino have just lately posted messages saying they oppose antisemitism.
Netanyahu’s workplace mentioned his first U.S. cease — in San Francisco — will embody conferences with different tech leaders to debate synthetic intelligence. It didn’t determine the executives.
From there, he heads to New York, the place he’s scheduled to deal with the United Nations Normal Meeting and meet with President Joe Biden and different world leaders, his workplace mentioned. They embody German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in addition to South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and U.N. Secretary-Normal António Guterres.