Musk tested the boundaries of foreign election interference, hosting AfD co-leader Alice Weidel for a livestream interview on X.

The publicity was a potential boon for AfD, which has been frozen out of mainstream politics, in part, because its leaders have downplayed Nazi atrocities.

Alice Weidel, leader of the AfD (Alternative For Germany) said “The National Socialists (Nazis) as the name suggests were socialists”.