Elon Musk compared Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with Adolf Hitler in a tweet that appeared to support truckers protesting vaccine mandates and which immediately triggered a storm on Twitter.
One of the leaders of the trucker-led protest against Covid rules clogging the streets of Canada's capital was arrested Thursday, the movement said on its official Twitter account.
Musk, the chief executive of Tesla Inc, sent the tweet on Wednesday just before midnight in California, and had deleted it by midday on Thursday, without explanation. He did respond to a request for comment.
Authorities in Canada are beginning to arrest protesters who have paralyzed traffic in Ottawa for three weeks in a demonstration against the country's COVID-19 restrictions.