Henry Ford used his newspaper, the Dearborn Independent, to spread antisemitism, almost a century before Elon Musk got into a fight with the Anti-Defamation League.
An auto tycoon, one of America’s most prominent businessmen, stood accused of enabling antisemitism on a platform he owned, allowing hate speech against Jews to spread to new audiences. The businessman was Henry Ford; the platform was his newspaper, the Dearborn Independent.” his platform X, formerly known as Twitter. He tweeted more than two dozen times about the group and liked posts featuring the hashtag #BanTheADL.
but deflected an attempt by the Israeli leader to get him to forcefully denounce antisemitism and pledge to crack down on it on his social media platform., according to historians.
But in the mid-1920s, Aaron Sapiro, a Jewish lawyer, broke from that orthodoxy and sued Ford for defaming him in the Independent. The case focused on the paper’s false statements about Sapiro’s cooperative farming work; the media circus that ensuedWhile the lawsuit ended in a mistrial in 1927, Sapiro’s allegations embarrassed Ford and spurred him to shutter the Independent, according to the Henry Ford Museum.
“I deem it to be my duty as an honorable man to make amends for the wrong done to the Jews as fellow-men and brothers, by asking their forgiveness for the harm that I have unintentionally committed, by retracting so far as lies within my power the offensive charges laid at their door by these publications, and by giving them the unqualified assurance that henceforth they may look to me for friendship and goodwill,” the letter read.
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