X owner turned Trump ally Musk has described the AfD as the only party that “can save Germany”, interviewed the party’s leader, Alice Wiedel, spoken at the AfD’s election rally and written an op-ed endorsing the party.
The seriousness of the concern in Germany about the rise of the far-right group notwithstanding, Musk has freely admitted that before his first interaction with the “anti-Greta Thunberg” Naomi Seibt on April 20 last year, he “didn’t know [the] AfD from a hole in the ground”.
When a young German anti-climate activist nicknamed the “anti-Greta Thunberg” began flattering tech billionaire Elon Musk on X, few could have foreseen it leading to the tech billionaire wholeheartedly endorsing Germany’s far-right.
But after that first interaction with Seibt, the German influencer claims Musk started researching the AfD.
Seibt’s following has grown by 442 per cent since her first public exchange with Musk, from around 74,000 in early April 2024 to 401,697 on 19 February.
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