X CEO Elon Musk has deleted a tweet containing a meme about the years-old Pizzagate conspiracy theory after receiving significant backlash.

Musk deleted the meme hours after posting it on X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday, just one day after returning from a trip to Israel.

Elon Musk deleted a tweet containing a meme about PizzagateCredit: Getty – Pool

The PIzzagate conspiracy theory grew legs toward the end of the 2016 presidential election cycleCredit: Getty Images – Getty
The Pizzagate conspiracy – which has been debunked – claimed that there was a child sex trafficking operation being run from a Washington, DC pizza parlor.

The conspiracy theory grew legs toward the end of the 2016 presidential election cycle.

On Tuesday, Musk shared a meme featuring characters from the TV show The Office, claiming that “Pizzagate is real.”

Along with the meme, he included in his caption that it “does seem at least a little suspicious.”

The meme also claimed that the person responsible for debunking the theory “went to jail for child porn.”

Musk followed up with a link to an article about an ABC News reporter who has pleaded guilty to federal child pornography charges, according to The Daily Beast.

However, the article does not state that the reporter reported on Pizzagate or other conspiracy theories.

While Musk then deleted the post hours after it went up, X users were quick to notice.

“It’s at once surprising and not to see Elon boosting pizzagate conspiracy theories on main. I wonder where this all ends? It feels unprecedented to see a tech exec using their own platform to spread misinfo (sic) to this extent,” one person wrote, including a screenshot of the since-deleted meme.

‘THE ACTUAL TRUTH’

The post came just one day after Musk’s return from a visit to Israel where he met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

There, he reportedly toured sites of the October 7 terror attack carried out by Hamas.

Musk sparked outrage earlier in November when he posted to X, calling an anti-Semitic post “the actual truth.”

That was in response to an X user who claimed Jews “have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.”

Musk also criticized the Anti-Defamation League, an organization that fights hatred aimed at Jewish people, in his response.

“The ADL unjustly attacks the majority of the West, despite the majority of the West supporting the Jewish people and Israel. This is because they cannot, by their own tenets, criticize the minority groups who are their primary threat,” Musk wrote.

Musk’s response has prompted a flurry of businesses to pull advertising from X.