Elon Musk visits former concentration camp Auschwitz

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Elon Musk, Tesla CEO, stands at a press event on the site of the Tesla Gigafactory. Musk, the owner of social media platform X and luxury electric carmaker Tesla who at times has been accused of backing anti-Semitic posts, visited the memorial site of the former German concentration camp Auschwitz on Monday. Patrick Pleul/dpa Pool/dpa
Elon Musk, Tesla CEO, stands at a press event on the site of the Tesla Gigafactory. Musk, the owner of social media platform X and luxury electric carmaker Tesla who at times has been accused of backing anti-Semitic posts, visited the memorial site of the former German concentration camp Auschwitz on Monday. Patrick Pleul/dpa Pool/dpa
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Elon Musk, the owner of social media platform X and luxury electric carmaker Tesla who at times has been accused of backing anti-Semitic posts, visited the memorial site of the former German concentration camp Auschwitz on Monday.

Photos showed him on the grounds of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in then-occupied Poland. The notorious concentration camp is where the Nazis exterminated about 1.1 million people of whom 1 million were Jews, according to the Auschwitz-Birkenau state museum.

Musk wanted to discuss online anti-Semitism in Kraków as part of a conference organized by the European Jewish Association (EJA). His visit to Auschwitz was originally planned for Tuesday.

As the owner of X, Musk was criticized last November for describing a post containing an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory as the "actual truth" in a post on the platform.

He later spoke of a misunderstanding and apologized. Hate speech researchers also accused X of not taking sufficient action against anti-Semitic posts. Major advertisers such as Apple and Disney subsequently stopped their ads on the service.