Germany’s intelligence agency has monitored the party, known as Alternative for Germany, for suspected extremism.

A senior lawmaker from Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats railed against Elon Musk’s interference in German politics and called for a new antitrust act to constrain his influence in the corporate world.

It was not the first online intervention by Elon Musk, the entrepreneur and adviser to Donald Trump, on behalf of once-fringe anti-immigrant parties in Europe.

Musk’s tweet was promoting another tweet from Naomi Seibt a German climate change denier who rose to prominence as the anti-Greta Thunberg. Seibt has also promoted conspiracy theories and been accused of being antisemitic, according to the Guardian, a claim she denies.

Elon Musk was blasted by German and U.S. lawmakers for backing a German far-right political party on X, formerly Twitter on Thursday.

Elon Musk has backed the far-Right AfD party to “save Germany”, wading into the country’s fledgling election campaign.

Elon Musk has backed Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in a post on X. As the X owner delves deeper into the world of politics by the day, he tweeted last night saying “Only the AfD can save Germany.

X owner Elon Musk posted (archived) on the site: "Only the AfD can save Germany." Following the post, which had more than 50 million views at the time of this writing, claims abounded about the politics of the political party,