Tech billionaire Elon Musk faces criticism from European leaders for his attempts to influence their politics through social media. Leaders in France, Germany, Norway, and the United Kingdom have denounced his involvement, warning against his attempts to replicate his impact on U.S. elections.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk is getting wide pushback in European capitals as he tries to extend his recent political success to the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. Leaders in four European countries — France, Germany, Norway and the United Kingdom — denounced his influence in separate statements Monday, warning that Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO, should not involve himself in their countries’ politics.
” And although Norway has been a pivotal proving ground for Tesla for a decade, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre decried Musk’s political influence in an interview Monday. “I find it worrying that a man with enormous access to social media and huge economic resources involves himself so directly in the internal affairs of other countries,” he told public broadcaster NRK, according to Reuters. “This is not the way things should be between democracies and allies,” he said.
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