Elon Musk: Senior EU official is ‘the epitome of banal, bureaucratic evil’
Věra Jourová lands in the tech chief's crosshairs after criticizing him for actively "helping" villains.
Elon Musk lashed out at the EU’s rule-of-law chief over her characterization of him as a “promoter of evil.”
Outgoing European Commission Vice President Věra Jourová said in an interview with POLITICO earlier this week that Musk, unlike other tech bosses, “is not able to recognize good and evil.”
She added that the multibillionaire tech mogul and boss of X, Tesla and SpaceX is amplifying hatred. “We started to relativize evil, and he’s helping it proactively. He’s the promoter of evil,” she said.
Musk, always eager to clap back at criticism, wasn’t having that.
Jourová, actually, is “the epitome of banal, bureaucratic evil,” the tech chief said on his X account late Thursday.
Musk has been on a collision course with European officials, fighting regulators and governments on multiple fronts.
The tech tycoon bought Twitter in 2022 and rebranded it as X. He has attracted criticism for his management of the platform, with European politicians and civil society saying he has allowed hate speech to fester on the site.
The latest development in his ongoing battle with the EU is a possible move by the European Commission to take into account his other companies, including SpaceX and Neuralink, when it calculates a potential fine against X for breaches of the bloc’s content moderation law.
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