Tech billionaire Elon Musk waded into European politics this week, firing off a volley of inflammatory posts aimed at the British and German governments in particular. On Thursday, Musk hosts an online conversation with the leader of the German far-right party (AFD) on his social media platform, X. Musk’s intervention in European affairs is raising alarm among some political parties there, as The World’s Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports.
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