Musk's response to the accusations has included the complaint that the "legacy media" is trying to cancel him.

The world doesn't seem quite ready to let Elon Musk move on from the salute he made at Trump's inauguration. It's already been adopted by anti-Musk protestors, who projected it onto a Tesla plant in Berlin ahead of the impending federal election.

Elon Musk, the world's richest man, standing behind a podium bearing the Seal of the President of the United States, on Monday twice gave what scholars, journalists and rights groups said was a Hitlergruß,