Stephen Fry takes brutal swipe at Elon Musk after Nazi-style salute scandal

Musk, 53, sparked planetary outrage erstwhile helium enactment his manus connected his thorax earlier extending his limb into the aerial aft giving a code astatine Washington DC's Capital One Arena past week.

He made the motion doubly successful a determination that immoderate critics likened to the fascist salute utilized by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.

Amid the controversy, Fry repeated a gag he’d been told comparing Tesla laminitis Musk to the Nazis.

“Someone said, ‘Musk is not a Nazi... Nazis made truly bully cars,’” helium went on, earlier bursting retired laughing.

Abell joked, “Don't enactment that connected Twitter, he'll find you Stephen!” and the histrion replied: “Oh, my God. My God, helium will.”

Musk denied that helium had done a Nazi-style salute aft the online disapproval earlier this month.

The richest antheral successful the satellite wrote connected X: “Frankly, they request amended soiled tricks. The 'everyone is Hitler' onslaught is sooo tired.”

The Canadian vocalist said she was “happy to denounce Nazism,” earlier adding: “I americium not him. I volition not marque a connection each clip helium does something. I tin lone nonstop emotion backmost into a satellite that is hurting.”

Elsewhere successful his interview, Fry said helium wanted to “destroy” social media, saying it has “polluted” our civilization and children’s minds.

“I ever hated, perfectly hated Facebook, never, ne'er trusted oregon liked it astatine all. But Twitter, I conscionable thought, wow, it's wonderful. It's similar a beauteous swimming hole, [a] beauteous stream wherever you tin each swim."

The histrion said the “beautiful swimming hole” wherever Twitter users had “all made friends with each other” abruptly saw “turds floating connected the surface”.

Fry deed retired astatine Musk’s “free speech” argument, which has seen hatred code emergence connected the social media platform.

The manager insisted immoderate guidelines request to beryllium enactment into spot to “weed” retired hateful posts.

“Is a gardener an force of escaped maturation due to the fact that they bash a spot of weeding?” helium asked.

“That's each I'm saying. We request to weed. We request to marque the maturation beardown and steadfast truthful that everybody tin bask the plot due to the fact that it's different a mess.”