Many social media users noticed the gesture looked like a Nazi salute. Musk fanned the flames of suspicion by not explicitly denying those claims in a dozen posts since.

Elon Musk gestured during a rally in Washington, D.C., on Monday. (Los/Ropi/Zuma Press) Anti-Defamation League Chief Executive Jonathan Greenblatt said he didn't think Elon Musk's viral gesture to ...

The breaking point arrived with an incident in which Musk appeared to make a "Nazi salute", leading Cervantes to feel "ashamed to tell people where I work". Even though Cervantes chose to leave ...