Elon Musk Shared, Then Deleted X Post Absolving Hitler, Stalin and Mao of Genocide

The post falsely claimed that Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Mao Zedong were not responsible for the murders of millions of people, but rather public sector workers were.
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