Overview

• Elon Musk replied with a thinking-face emoji to a Stefan Molyneux post that asserted there is no such thing as colonisation and claimed the English did not rule India.
• Reporting identifies Molyneux as a white supremacist whose channels were previously banned, a detail critics cited while accusing Musk of amplifying extremist rhetoric.
• The exchange garnered tens of millions of views, with the visibility driven in part by Musk’s engagement and large following on the platform he owns.
• Community Notes on X countered the post by distinguishing legal immigration from violent colonial rule and by citing documented economic extraction under the British Raj.
• Indian users flooded the thread with rebuttals and urged authorities to penalize or expel Tesla and Starlink from India, though no formal government action has been reported.