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Musk hosts German far-right leader on X, stirs election meddling angst

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Berlin | Elon Musk urged Germans to vote for the far-right Alternative for Germany in an upcoming election in a conversation with its leader on his social media platform X that highlighted the US billionaire’s growing ambition to sway European politics.

In a wide-ranging, sometimes stilted conversation that touched on immigration, German bureaucracy, energy policy, space colonisation, God and Adolf Hitler, Mr Musk and AfD chancellor candidate Alice Weidel agreed that the AfD was the answer to Germany’s malaise.

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