Elon Musk and the Anti-Defamation League headed by Jonathan Greenblatt have been on a rollercoaster of mutually exchanged verbal barbs since last year, when the billionaire bought X/Twitter. After originally extolling Musk as an “amazing innovator”, Greenblatt later called for an ad boycott on the platform over an alleged “surge” in hate speech.

Elon Musk, the owner of X (formerly Twitter) has proposed a poll to see whether users of the social media platform are amenable to having the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) booted off it.

“Perhaps we should run a poll on this?” Musk posted on Saturday, in response to one pundit pointing to the fact that #BanTheADL was trending.

Another commentator had argued on X that the growing trend was indicative of how people are done “with the ‘we’re labeling everything we don’t like as hateful/racist/dangerous/far-right’ BS,” and no longer fear the ADL’s “intimidation tactics".