Elon Musk says he may have to file a defamation suit against the Anti-Defamation League

Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and owner of the X social media platform, threatened Monday to file a defamation lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League. 

"If this continues, we will have no choice but to file a defamation suit against, ironically, the “Anti-Defamation” League," he wrote on X, the platform previously called Twitter. 

The Anti-Defamation League published a report from earlier this year that found thousands of examples from February of "virulent anti-Semitism from 2,173 accounts" that were reinstated under Musk's free speech guidelines at X.

#BanTheADL trended on X over the weekend after controversial statements by its director Jonathan Greenblatt. 

Musk responded to the campaign to ban the ADL on social media, saying: "Perhaps we should run a poll on this?"

He later accused the organization of trying to kill X by falsely accusing him of being anti-Semitic. 

"Since the acquisition, The @ADL has been trying to kill this platform by falsely accusing it & me of being anti-Semitic," Musk wrote.

"Our US advertising revenue is still down 60%, primarily due to pressure on advertisers by @ADL (that’s what advertisers tell us), so they almost succeeded in killing X/Twitter!" he continued.