A midwestern forecaster is out of a job after criticizing Elon Musk's infamous salute at the inauguration and calling him a Nazi.
A meteorologist in Milwaukee has been “dropped” by the TV station where she worked after criticizing Elon Musk in an Instagram post about his Nazi-like salutes, according to a report from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
Sam Kuffel, the weather reporter for CBS 58, was let go by the station a day after she posted two items on her Instagram page condemning Musk.
Elon Musk referenced Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders in a social media post filled with puns early Thursday taunting those who accused him of doing a Nazi salute at an event after President
Sam Kuffel made two posts on Instagram criticizing the world’s richest man over the inauguration gesture, only to be out of a job the following day
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As news of meteorologist Sam Kuffel's firing broke, a number of people expressed support and opposition to the move by the local CBS affiliate.
Musk has promoted antisemitic and white nationalist content online, and has endorsed a neo-Nazi party in Germany.
A Wisconsin meteorologist has reportedly lost her job at a Milwaukee TV station, one day after she took to social media to criticize Elon Musk's alleged Nazi salute during the inauguration of President Donald Trump on Monday.
A Milwaukee meteorologist who spoke out against Elon Musk’s “Nazi” salute has since parted ways with CBS affiliate WDJT-TV. “Meteorologist Sam Kuffel is no longer employed at CBS58,” news director Jessie Garcia wrote in a staff memo Wednesday obtained by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Musk has long been an advocate of free speech, previously saying, "free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy."
Sam Kuffel, a meteorologist with WDJT-TV (Channel 58) called out Elon Musk for doing the "Nazi salute". She was later fired from the station with her profile wiped from the website