In one recent instance, Musk hosted German ultra-right-wing politician Alice Weidel, who used her X-hosted conversation with Musk to ahistorically claim that Adolf Hitler was "a leftist." Weidel, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alice Weidel, Federal Chairwoman and candidate for Chancellor of the Alternative for Germany(AfD), speaks at a press conference in ...

When a young German anti-climate activist nicknamed the “anti-Greta Thunberg” began flattering tech billionaire Elon Musk on X, few could have foreseen it leading to the tech billionaire ...

Elon Musk talks to Alice Weidel, right, federal chairwoman of Germany's AfD, at the party's election campaign launch via a video overlay in Halle (Salle), Germany, Jan. 25, 2025. (Hendrik Schmidt/dpa ...

Musk wields significant political influence on X, boosting hard-right politicians and activists in Europe by increasing their ...

AFP — All other German parties see the far-right AfD as a threat to democracy, but the anti-immigration party has a powerful friend abroad: Elon Musk, the Team Trump megaphone. “Let’s go, guys, let’s ...

Elon Musk has shown no qualms about weighing in on this weekend’s German election. Since endorsing the far-right, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany — declaring on Dec. 20 that “Only the AfD can ...

An extreme right-wing German party endorsed by Elon Musk and Vice President JD Vance surged in the country's Sunday election, winning the broadest support of any far-right party in Germany since World ...

All other German parties see the far-right AfD as a threat to democracy, but the anti-immigration party has a powerful friend abroad: Elon Musk, the loudhailer voice of Team Trump. "Let's go, guys, ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Former EU Internal Market Chief Thierry Breton already warned the X-owner and billionaire Elon Musk last summer about complying with the Digital Services Act. The European Commission will analyse ...