The party has also criticized electric-car subsidies that have benefited Musk’s Tesla in the past. And it has called for Germany to leave the European Union—a decision that wo

Political leaders have shunned the Alternative for Germany. But on his social media platform X, Mr. Musk is pitching the party as mainstream.

Germany’s central bank, the Bundesbank, on Friday became the latest of the country’s institutions to stop posting on X, formerly known as Twitter, the messaging platform owned by Elon Musk, after the German government expressed concern that social media is distorting political discourse ahead of national elections on February 23rd this year.

Germany's foreign and defence ministries said on Wednesday they would refocus their public communications away from Elon Musk's X, with the defence department saying it had become increasingly "unhappy" with developments at the social media platform.

AfD is also focused on ending Germany's policy of atonement for World War Two crimes. Its leading candidate for the European Parliament election resigned from the party in May amid public outcry, after declaring that members of the SS,

The German army has quit X, the social media platform belonging to Elon Musk, because of disinformation days after the tech billionaire gave his full endorsement to the far-Right AfD party.

Germany’s Defence Ministry and the national army, the Bundeswehr, have officially suspended their accounts on Elon Musk-owned social media platform X (formerly Twitter). The decision, attributed to the platform's inability to facilitate balanced and factual discussions,