An auto tycoon, one of America's most prominent businessmen, stood accused of enabling antisemitism on a platform he owned, allowing hate speech against Jews to spread to new audiences. The businessman was Henry Ford; the platform was his newspaper, the Dearborn Independent. Nearly a century after the Independent spread antisemitic conspiracy theories, Elon Musk, the man sometimes called America's modern Ford, became embroiled in his own controversy over antisemitism and free speech this fall.