I have one bit of advice for all those people fuming over Elon Musk’s hand gestures: Stop. I know it’s tough to resist the temptation to go into full outrage mode over the apparent Nazi ...

That means we can argue endlessly and cleverly over that dumb salute, but it’s fundamentally a distraction. Our more important task is to define those moments that truly matter, and throw our voices, ...

Gabe Whisnant is Deputy Weekend Editor at Newsweek based in South Carolina. Prior to joining Newsweek in 2023, he directed daily publications in North and South Carolina. As an executive editor ...

When the world’s richest man takes center stage and performs a Nazi salute, that’s when the fascists come crawling out of the woodwork. On Inauguration Day in the United States, tech oligarch ...

George W. Bush has been a meme before, and we’ve seen the former president photobomb a broadcast. And now, it’s all happened again. Bush was at the inauguration of Donald Trump on Monday ...

Meanwhile, tellingly, neo-Nazis have gleefully taken the salute at face value, Wired’s David Gilbert reports. The administrator of a Nazi meme channel on the far-right Telegram platform shared ...

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“He loves to embody memes. He loves to be the meme,” she said. In Germany, where the Nazi salute is outlawed as ... Nitasha Tiku, Kate Brady, Cat Zakrzewski and Julian Mark contributed to ...

Social media is inundated with Family Guy memes, and a particular one involving The Godfather resurfaces occasionally. Seth MacFarlane, creator and star of the long-running animated series ...

Ben Samuels, a journalist for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, also wrote that Musk’s gesture "appeared to conclude his remarks with a Roman salute, fascist salute most commonly associated with Nazi ...

A bizarre new meme coin named ‘Elon-Hitler’ has hit the crypto scene ... A video clip circulating online shows Musk making what some interpret as a Nazi salute. While Musk has not directly denied the ...