Elon Musk’s plan to host Alice Weidel—the leader of Germany’s right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party—in a live interview on his social media platform X on Jan. 9 has sparked calls from European Union leaders for the European Commission to intervene.
The interview will take place ahead of Germany’s national election on Feb. 23.
EU leaders have called for Brussels to intervene directly, saying it needs to enforce the Digital Services Act (DSA).
The DSA is an EU-wide 2022 regulation that requires social media platforms to remove and deal with what is deemed “disinformation.”
In December 2024, Musk publicly endorsed the AfD, and on Dec. 28, the German paper Welt am Sonntag published a guest editorial by him headlined “Only the AfD Can Save Germany.”…