(LifeSiteNews) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has announced that it is removing its “Glossary of Extremism and Hate” from its website following intense backlash from Elon Musk and other free speech advocates who called out the misleading nature of some of its entries.

While touting the database as a “source of high-level information on a wide range of topics for years,” the group claimed in a statement that there were “an increasing number of entries in the Glossary were outdated. We also saw a number of entries intentionally misrepresented and misused.”

“At ADL, we always are looking for how we can and should do things better. That’s why we are moving to retire the Glossary effectively immediately. This will allow ADL to explore new strategies …” the group said.

The ADL drew the ire of Musk and other high-profile X users last week for having listed Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA (TPUSA) organization in its index of hate groups.

“While TPUSA repeatedly has stated that it rejects white supremacist ideology, white nationalists openly have attended their events,” the entry stated. “Moreover, extremists and far-right conspiracy theorists have been featured at the AmericaFest conference and other TPUSA events.”

It also said that “Kirk promoted Christian nationalism” while adding that “individuals associated with TPUSA have a history of bigoted statements about the Black community, the LGBTQ community and specifically transgender people, and other minority groups.”

The database also included terms like “Traditional Catholicism,” “Globalist,” “Celtic Cross,” “Christ is King” and the “America First” movement but notably omitted left-wing groups like Black Lives Matter and Antifa.

On Sunday, Musk issued an X post declaring that the “ADL hates Christians” and that it is a “hate group.” Later he said “such false and defamatory labels about people and organizations encouraged murder.”

This week, FBI Director Kash Patel announced that his agency will no longer work with the ADL, which he accused of being a political front group “masquerading as watchdogs.” Patel minced no words in his decision to end his agency’s relationship with the group, which would train agents on identifying “hate” and “extremist” threats to the U.S.

READ: FBI cuts ties with Anti-Defamation League after Kash Patel blasts group as ‘political front’

In a statement to Fox News Digital, Patel rebuked former FBI Director James Comey for having “disgraced the FBI by writing ‘love letters’ to the ADL and embedding agents with an extreme group functioning like a terrorist organization and the disgraceful operation they ran spying on Americans. That was not law enforcement, it was activism dressed up as counterterrorism, and it put Americans in danger.”

Patel was referencing a speech Comey made at the ADL’s National Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C., in 2014. During his remarks, Comey congratulated the ADL for its “record of success” over the past 100 years.

“Your advocacy for such a wide range of issues and constituents is nothing short of amazing, from anti-Semitism to voting rights and immigration issues … from gender and LGBT equality to anti-Muslim prejudice … from the separation of church and state to cyber-bullying,” he said at the time.

Traditional Catholics were among those who were targeted by the Comey-led FBI. In February 2023, former FBI agent Kyle Seraphin published an 8-page memo that revealed the agency had taken an interest in monitoring “Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists in Radical Traditionalist Catholic” communities. The memo referenced reports published by the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center, which has previously worked with the ADL, as well as three anti-Catholic articles published by left-wing websites Salon and The Atlantic to justify the FBI’s spying.

This past spring, popular Canadian professor Dr. Jordan Peterson was criticized by Candace Owens and others for a report he helped co-author denouncing the purported weaponization of the phrase “Christ is King” for the National Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), which is also tied to the Anti-Defamation League.

The NCRI was established in 2018 by Joel Finkelstein, who worked for the Anti-Defamation League from 2018 until 2020. The NCRI and the ADL partnered in 2019 to “look into how extremism and hate spread on social media.” The ADL has also partnered with PayPal.

In August 2023, independent journalist Kyle Clifton published a series of video clips of a conversation with ADL Director of Development Courtney Kravitz and ADL Arizona chapter Community Manager Sarah Kader. The footage shows Kader and Kravitz touting how they attempt to get so-called “extremist” content suppressed on online services ranging from social network Twitter/X and payment processors, to crowdfunding platforms and even video game streaming, showing the extensive nature of the ADL’s reach.