At Leading Anti-Hate Group, Boss’s Embrace of Elon Musk Raises Tensions

Late last year, Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, joined CNBC to discuss Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, and said something that shocked his rank-and-file employees.

“Elon Musk is an amazing entrepreneur and extraordinary innovator,” he said. “He is the Henry Ford of our time.” 

Prior to the interview, ADL staffers had provided Greenblatt with extensive talking points on Musk. These noted, for example, the billionaire’s dabblings in COVID-19 denialism and a then-recent lawsuit accusing Tesla of racial discrimination—exactly the sorts of things that many employees at the...