A 50-year-old man from Saudi Arabia identified as Taleb A drove into the Christmas market in Magdeburg with the death toll rising to five.

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.

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.

Musk has been amplifying right-wing, anti-immigration voices on X for years and has already questioned criticism aimed at the AfD back in June. In September 2023, he denounced Germany for giving money to charities and rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean Sea.

Elon Musk waded into Germany’s election on Friday, by expressing his support for a far-right anti-party that is being monitored for extremism.

Elon Musk has backed the AfD, Germany's far-right party, after a Trump-backed bill he initially detested got rejected by the US House Of Representatives

Best known as a billionaire owner of X, X.AI, SpaceX, Dogecoin, and controversial comments, Elon Musk's main wealth is from Tesla.

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In the wake of the tragic attack at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, which resulted in multiple fatalities and injuries, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has publicly called for German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to resign.

And users accused Musk, who had endorsed the AfD as the only party “capable of saving Germany,” of meddling. In the aftermath of the attack, Musk has criticized the attack’s coverage in the German media and dismissed the suspect’s support for AfD. Now some are claiming it’s Musk’s attempt to protect the party.