Elon Musk Takes Legal Action Against ZDF – Broadcaster Responds

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• Elon Musk is demanding, through his lawyer, that ZDF issue a cease-and-desist letter.
• The broadcaster falsely claimed that Musk had called for a “hunt for migrants” in light of the riots in Belfast.
• However, Musk did share a post by a far-right extremist calling for protests.

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Update 2:36 p.m.: After tech entrepreneur Elon Musk took legal action against a ZDF report about him, the German broadcaster removed the criticized passage.

“ZDF has complied and removed the passage in question from the introduction.” A note has now been added to the corresponding section in the media library stating: “The introduction was shortened for legal reasons.”

Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk is taking legal action against a ZDF report about him. He issued a cease-and-desist letter to the German public broadcaster on behalf of his client regarding a report on riots in Belfast and is demanding a declaration of discontinuance, attorney Joachim Steinhöfel confirmed to the German Press Agency (dpa).

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The "Welt" had previously reported on the letter. According to the report, the claim that Musk had called for a "hunt for migrants by a racist mob" is obviously untrue.

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The background is an episode of “ZDF heute live” from June 12. The program focused on the violent riots in Belfast following the indictment earlier that week of a refugee from Sudan for attempted murder in connection with a knife attack.

The introduction stated that a racist mob was hunting down migrants. “A British far-right extremist and tech billionaire, Elon Musk, had called for this.”

ZDF has since added a disclaimer next to the video. It states that the wording was “imprecise and therefore misleading.” British far-right activist Tommy Robinson had called for protests following the knife attack in Belfast. “The post was shared by Elon Musk.”