Elon Musk can try to trick gamers, to argue with them, to post their DMs against his own Terms of Service. But more than liberals and Tesla-haters and all other groups he’s in conflict with, this is one battle he’s never going to win.

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Friday that Elon Musk's support for the far-right in Europe is “completely unacceptable,” adding to his previous criticism of Musk's interventions in the German election campaign.

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.

From broadsides against the UK government to boosting Germany's ultra-nationalist AFD party, the world's richest man is making waves across the Atlantic

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,

Elon Musk’s growing association with far-right movements poses a threat to democracy in Europe, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said during a press conference in Berlin on Friday, as reported by Politico.

Musk’s political involvement appears to be largely aimed at giving succour to populist individuals, parties and causes, as well as actively hollowing out centrist parties in other countries. Musk’s political intrusion, however, has expanded of late, with an apparent eye on election results.

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