Facebook cofounder calls on Elon Musk to resign after Tesla CEO calls antisemitic tweet 'the actual truth'

• Dustin Moskovitz called for Elon Musk to resign after Musk said he agreed with an antisemitic post.

• Musk replied to a post that accused Jewish groups of "hatred against whites," calling it the "actual truth."

• Musk previously threatened to sue the Anti-Defamation League after it reported a rise in hate speech on X.

The Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz, who's now the CEO of Asana, said Elon Musk should resign after Musk described an antisemitic post on X as the "actual truth."

"I call on Elon Musk to resign," Moskovitz said Wednesday in a post on Threads.

He later posted that Musk should resign "(from everything)." The Tesla CEO has a hand in six companies, including SpaceX and X, formerly known as Twitter.

Moskovitz's comments came after a Wednesday exchange on X in which a user called for an end to antisemitism.

Another user on X made an antisemitic comment in response to the post, saying that "Jewish communities" had been pushing "hatred against whites." The user said Western Jewish people had been supporting "hordes of minorities" flooding their countries — and had now come to the "disturbing realization" that those minorities didn't like them too much.

"You have said the actual truth," Musk wrote in response to the antisemitic post.

The post echoes the "great replacement" conspiracy theory that many white supremacists subscribe to. It centers on the idea that nonwhite immigrants to the US and other Western countries are replacing white populations. The theory is oftentimes invoked against Jewish supporters of immigration.

Musk faced swift backlash

The response to Musk's apparent support of a user who echoed this racist theory was swift.

The Tesla investor Ross Gerber said he planned to replace his Model Y with a Rivian as a result of Musk's comment.

"Getting a flood of messages from clients wanting out of tesla and anything to do with Elon Musk," Gerber wrote on X. "Many saying they are selling their cars as well. What is he doing to the tesla brand???!!?!?"

The Wavelength cofounder Marc Bodnick posted screenshots of Musk's remark to X and wrote, "Elon's antisemitism is still shocking."

Matt Blaze, the McDevitt professor of computer science and law at Georgetown, said in a post on Mastodon that "Musk's latest unfiltered reveal of his character (anti-semitism edition this time around) makes it all the more unfortunate that some communities still haven't moved off Twitter/X/whateveritis."