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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jon Henley Europe correspondent

How Elon Musk has meddled in European affairs

Last week Elon Musk hosted a livestream on the platform with Alice Weidel in which he heaped praise on the anti-immigrant, pro-Kremlin AfD co-leader
Last week Elon Musk hosted a livestream on the platform with Alice Weidel in which he heaped praise on the anti-immigrant, pro-Kremlin AfD co-leader. Photograph: Andre M Chang/Zuma Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock

A limited – at best – understanding of the continent of Europe and its component countries has not prevented the world’s richest man from intervening in the domestic politics of several of them, as well as attacking the EU itself.

Here we take a brief look at some of the occasions on which X owner Elon Musk has used his position as proprietor of one of the world’s largest social media platforms to meddle in the internal affairs of sovereign democratic states outside the US.

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