The employee objected to a post on X by Mr. Musk, Tesla’s chief executive and a top adviser to President Trump, that referred to Nazi leaders.

Four weeks ago he posted his concerns that Tesla remained silent after CEO Elon Musk used Nazi mass murderers as a prop in a joke to make light of his critics. Jared Ottmann accidentally cut short his nearly seven-year career at Tesla by exercising his free speech on social media.

A Tesla engineer and manager was fired from the company after calling out Elon Musk for his “Nazi joke” on X, reported New York Times (NYT). The layoff came after the employee shared a LinkedIn post criticising the tech billionaire for referencing Nazi leaders in a pun-filled post he shared on X.