Elon Musk, in an eventually deleted X post, promoted a Tucker Carlson interview with a Hitler apologist who downplayed the Holocaust and said Nazis were humane
This report fits a documented pattern of Musk using his X account to engage with material involving antisemitic or Hitler-related narratives, including his 2023 response endorsing an antisemitic user's claim as the “actual truth”.
Musk's promotion directs attention from his X audience to Tucker Carlson's interview and gives Darryl Cooper's Holocaust-minimizing claims a high-profile distribution channel.
Deleting the post removes Musk's continuing on-platform endorsement, but it cannot reverse the association created by the initial promotion.
Second-order effects
The episode intensifies scrutiny of whether influential account holders and platforms apply different standards to historically falsified or extremist-adjacent material than to ordinary misinformation.
It gives critics and advertisers another concrete case in which X's owner is himself part of the content-amplification and moderation story, rather than merely overseeing it.
Third-order effects
If prominent accounts repeatedly elevate revisionist narratives and later delete posts, platform governance may increasingly be judged by amplification decisions and accountability for reach, not only by formal content rules.
The broader risk is a more durable cross-platform ecosystem for historical revisionism, especially as related coverage shows such material being repackaged with AI-generated media.
The trend: This is one data point in the shift from fringe extremist content to networked, high-reach distribution through influential accounts and rapidly reusable media formats.
The guest just before this one also had old social media hot takes on Hitler. Per NBC: ""If I, a Jew, a member of the Tribe, Hebrew Schooled, can read Mein Kampf & think ‘holy shit, Hitler actually had some decent points.’ Then NO ONE is safe from hating you once they find out w…
how many @techmeme headlines these days have “In a now deleted post, Elon Musk [did something horrific]”? — And there are still people who _choose_ to be engaged there ... sigh.
All these “conservatives” expressing shock and dismay that Tucker Carlson is a Nazi apologist are pretty pathetic. Maybe try some critical thinking skills when they start dog whistling so your ears don't get blown out by the bullhorn. You knew who he was all along.
Tucker Carlson interviews a holocaust denying historian in which Churchill is the bad guy and Hiltler is the good guy. And of course Elon plugs the interview on X.
Cooper — the guy who called the Holocaust “humane” — is one of the richest Substackers around. He has tens of thousands of paid subscribers paying $50 to $60 a year, meaning he's at least taking in $500,000. — Substack pockets 10% of that haul. [embedded post]
I have a serious question, in light of the fact that I've been reading about Holocaust planning this week: what's the bottom on all this? If US conservatism is in a race to the bottom a lot like that of the Nazis leading up to the Holocaust, what's their version of that? [embedd…
Tucker Carlson (and Elon Musk by proxy) are platforming the views of Darryl Cooper, a “historian” trying to “understand WW2”. — Unsurprisingly, he's lying. (thread) [image]
Elon Musk deleted his tweet saying a podcast with Tucker Carlson and Darryl Cooper offering excusatory narrative for nazis while calling Winston Churchill “the chief villain of WW2” was “Very interesting. Worth watching”. [image]
In which @TuckerCarlson's guest seems to imply Nazi death camps were a humane solution to a problem of millions of civilians voluntarily seeking refuge from a war Hitler started, and compares the Nazis' policies to what Israel is doing in Gaza in response to a war Hamas started.
Darryl Cooper may be the best and most honest popular historian in the United States. His latest project is the most forbidden of all: trying to understand World War Two. (1:20) History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict (12:39) The Jonestown Cult (32:10) World War Two (45:04) How …
Actually, this is pro-Nazi propaganda, including, “Churchill was the chief villain of WW2” and Hitler “didn't want to fight.” No serious or honorable person would support or endorse this type of garbage.
A must read article by @CNN, which correctly warns that Elon Musk's posts, and the lack of scrutiny they receive from his company's own fact-checking system, “lay bare how Musk has turned X into a pro-Trump machine.” https://www.cnn.com/...