Elon Musk under fire for joke using image of Nazi soldier

Chief Twit Elon Musk is under fire for an off-color joke using an image of a Nazi soldier. The world’s richest man shared a meme on Monday based on a photo of a World War II German soldier with a crate with three carrier pigeons on his back and the caption: “3 unread messages.” “How times have changed,” the Tesla mogul told his 115 million followers, comparing the pigeons in the image to Twitter’s own blue bird. While the wording was innocent enough, the image — which did not feature any obvious insignia — sparked a flutter of outrage after users picked up that it was of a Wehrmacht soldier from Nazi Germany.

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