Elon Musk's opinion piece in Germany's Welt am Sonntag sparked controversy, leading to the resignation of the newspaper's opinion editor. Musk's article defended the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which has been labeled as a suspected extremist group by German intelligence.
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 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. \What To Know Following the online publication of Musk's commentary on Saturday, which was written in German, Eva Marie Kogel, the editor of Welt am Sonntag's opinion section, quickly resigned. 'I always enjoyed heading the opinion section of WELT and WAMS. Today an article by Elon Musk appeared in Welt am Sonntag. I handed in my resignation yesterday after it went to print,' Kogel wrote on X early Saturday morning, according to an English translation of the post written in German. \Musk wrote in the opinion piece, according to an English translation by Reuters, 'The portrayal of the AfD as right-wing extremist is clearly false, considering that Alice Weidel, the party's leader, has a same-sex partner from Sri Lanka! Does that sound like Hitler to you? Please!' \Welt am Sonntag published a statement by the newspaper's editor-in-chief designate Jan Philipp Burgard underneath Musk's commentary. 'Musk's diagnosis is correct, but his therapeutic approach, that only the AfD can save Germany, is fatally false,' he wrot
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