The repost, later deleted by Musk, said: "Stalin, Mao, and Hitler didn’t murder millions of people. Their public sector employees did.”

This is all normal enough, but his latest retweet has outraged people on Twitter as he shared a post that attempted to downplay the role Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong had on the deaths of millions. The retweeted post read: “Stalin, Mao, and Hitler didn’t murder millions of people. Their public sector workers did.”

Elon Musk is facing backlash after he reposted a tweet which claimed that Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong were not responsible for the deaths of millions of people