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, though he made light of ...

Australia on Thursday passed anti-hate crime laws under which a Nazi salute in public, among other similar offences, will be ...

Australia has passed tough anti-hate-crime laws, including mandatory jail time for giving a Nazi salute in public, in a bid ...

Australia passed tough anti-hate crime laws on Thursday, including mandatory minimum sentences for terror offences and displaying hate symbols, in a bid to tackle a recent surge in antisemitism.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Musk turned the controversy over his gesture into something like a joke about Nazis.

The salute was first used during the French Revolution by The National Assembly, who were inspired by a Roman painting. “The ...