Elon Musk Is a Paid Subscriber to Shockingly Racist Pro-Apartheid South African X Account

Elon Musk Is a Paid Subscriber to Shockingly Racist Pro-Apartheid South African X Account

AP Photo/Evan Vucci Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and advisor to President-elect Donald Trump, is a paid subscriber to a virulently racist X account. Musk not only follows an account called “Boer” (@twatterbaas) but is one of two accounts to pay it for “bonus content and extra perks.” Boer charges $5/month for said perks and content. In one of the account’s most recent tweets, Boer submitted that “Atrica [sic] has 54 countries, 1.487 b…

Elon Musk is one of two paid subscribers of an X account that has implied South Africa was better off under apartheid, slammed “Black ruled” countries, and more

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