Musk Responds to LeBron ‘Scary AF Hate Speech’ Twitter Claims Elon Musk has responded to LeBron James’ tweet about an apparent spike in racist language on the platform by quote-tweeting his Head of Safety & Integrity Yoel Roth’s claims that the offending accounts were largely “inauthentic.” James had quote-tweeted a report that suggested use of the word “n****r” had exploded almost 500% on Twitter since Elon Musk’s takeover before claiming there were “so many damn unfit people saying hate speech is free speech.” Musk - who has famously set himself out as a free-speech absolutist” - replied by quote-tweeting Roth’s insistence that Twitter has “taken steps to ban the users involved in this trolling campaign.” Subscribe to RT