The world’s richest man on Tuesday directed his anger at the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center, calling the Montgomery organization a “criminal enterprise” as it reported on an affiliate of the right-wing satirical website the Babylon Bee.

“The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is a criminal organization imo,” tweeted Elon Musk.

Musk, whose first acts as owner of X — once known as Twitter — included reversing the Babylon Bee’s Twitter suspension, quoted a post written Tuesday by Babylon Bee founder Seth Dillon.

The post called the SPLC a “discredited, scandal-ridden smear factory.”

It said the SPLC was “about to publish a hit piece doxxing several of our ‘Not the Bee’ writers who wished to remain anonymous so they could speak freely, without fear.”

Doxxing is the malicious publication of information such as home addresses, phone numbers and email addresses.

Not the Bee is self-described as “a humor-based news, opinion, and entertainment site” created by the Babylon Bee.

The SPLC story, written by reporters with the organization’s Hatewatch brand, was published later Tuesday and did not include personal information.

It asserted Not the Bee’s “publicly viewable source code exposes contact information for several dozen authors, including the real names of many of the most prolific pseudonymous content creators.

“The source code, visible to anyone with a web browser and not requiring an account on the site to view,” the article went on to say, “also revealed email addresses, IP addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, social media accounts, subscription and payment information, and more.”

Efforts to reach the SPLC were not immediately successful.

Dillon claimed the organization “extracted sensitive information from our site, then used that information to contact our writers directly.

“We’re determining how they obtained this information, but we already know why they went digging for it. They did it because they’re left-wing activists masquerading as journalists,” he wrote.

“They did it because they lack principles. They did it because they’re vindictive bullies who’ve admitted their aim is to ‘completely destroy’ individuals and organizations they disagree with by making them pay a steep price for speaking freely.”

The Bee was suspended from X, then known as Twitter, for misgendering Rachel Levine, the U.S. assistant secretary for health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, when it dubbed Levine its “Man of the Year” in 2022.

Levine is the first openly transgender four-star officer and the highest ranking transgender official in the federal government.