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Fact check: How Elon Musk is meddling in German elections

Elon Musk has supported Germany's far-right populist party, Alternative for Germany , ahead of elections in Germany.
Musk shared misleading information regarding EU election annulments and the AfD's performance in mock elections.
Recent polls indicate that the conservative CDU/CSU alliance is likely to win in Germany, with AfD as the runner-up and Social Democrats in third place.
The AfD did not win youth elections, coming fourth behind other parties, as clarified by project head Florian Wolf.

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Protothema

German elections: Elon Musk supports far-right AfD

What he wrote in his Twitter post today

13 hours ago

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svt Nyheter

This is how Elon Musk and the pro-Russian propagandist work for an AFD win

6,800 kilometers from Berlin, in Washington DC, Elon Musk is tweeting about the approaching German elections. At the same time, in occupied Ukraine, German influencer Alina Lipp is posting on Telegram. Both have a message in common: the right-wing nationalist party AfD is Germany's only hope.

18 hours ago·Stockholm, Sweden

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Deutsche Welle

Fact check: How Elon Musk is meddling in German elections

Trump confidant and tech billionaire Elon Musk openly supports the German far-right AfD party and continues to spread false and misleading claims about elections on his platform X.

1 day ago·Bonn, Germany

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The Independent

Elon Musk wants far right AfD to win the German election - here’s how he’s doing it

Germany’s leading political figures say Musk will face consequences for his endorsement of the country’s far-right party, Tom Watling and Alicja Hagopian write

2 days ago·London, United Kingdom

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Times Live

How Elon Musk got involved in Germany's election

In December 2024, Elon Musk waded into Germany's election campaign, hailing the far-right Alternative for Germany party as the country's saviour.

2 days ago·Johannesburg, South Africa

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France Info

Elections in Germany: Why Elon Musk is campaigning for the far right party AfD

After supporting Donald Trump, Elon Musk multiplied his calls for the vote in favour of Alternative für Deutschland in view of the advance legislatures across the Rhine. Franceinfo interviewed specialists to decrypt its objectives.

2 days ago·Strasbourg, France

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