Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s new opinion article in Germany’s Welt am Sonntag led the newspaper’s opinion editor to resign.
Newsweek reached out to Musk’s social media platform X, formerly Twitter, via email for comment from the tech tycoon and the WELT Group via email for comment on the editor’s resignation Saturday afternoon.
Musk, the owner of X, and the CEO of car manufacturer Tesla and space tech company SpaceX, has cozied up to President-elect Donald Trump, especially after his November election win. Now, Musk has grown his influence abroad, appearing in a German newspaper to support the country’s Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
The AfD party is viewed by many as far right and, according to Reuters, the party, at the national level, has been classified by Germany’s domestic intelligence agency as a suspected extremism case starting in 2021.
