In an opinion essay he wrote for German newspaper Welt am Sonntag, Musk argued that his “significant investments” in Germany — there’s a Tesla gigafactory outside Berlin — give him the right to opine about Europe’s largest economy.
But it seems that Musk gets much of his information about Germany from X, which critics say increasingly resembles a far-right echo chamber. Musk, for instance, has reposted videos of Naomi Seibt, a right-wing influencer known for her closeness to the AfD and denial of climate change caused by humans, who German media have dubbed the “anti-Greta,” in reference to Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg. (In one video reposted by Musk, she described the German Greens’ environmental policies as “eco-socialist national suicide.”)
In the past, Musk has seemed to struggle to try to understand German politics.
“Why is there such a negative reaction from some about AfD?” Musk wrote on his X platform in June. “They keep saying ‘far right,’ but the policies of AfD that I’ve read about don’t sound extremist. Maybe I’m missing something.”
-While Musk has since embraced the AfD, Germany’s federal domestic intelligence agency continues to surveil the party, classifying it as a suspected extremist organization.
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