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Elon Musk on Monday bizarrely compared George Soros to the "X-Men" mutant Magneto, claiming without substantiation that the billionaire "hates humanity."

His tweet on Monday, which offered no context for his comparison, simply stated: "Soros reminds me of Magneto." It has been viewed more than 14 million times as of press time, Insider reported.

Musk then got into a spat with investigative journalist Brian Krassenstein over his tweet.

Krassenstein said: "Fun fact: Magneto's experiences during the Holocaust as a survivor shaped his perspective as well as his depth and empathy."

Krassenstein added that Soros, who is also a Holocaust survivor, gets "attacked nonstop for his good intentions which some Americans think are bad merely because they disagree with this political affiliations."

Musk replied to his Krassenstein's tweet, saying: "You assume they are good intentions. They are not. He wants to erode the very fabric of civilization. Soros hates humanity."

Magneto is a mutant character in the Marvel Comics, who possesses the superhuman ability to generate and control magnetic fields. Magneto was a Holocaust survivor, whose arc in the comics took him from a clear-cut villain who believed humans and mutants could not coexist, to an anti-hero allying with the X-Men.