Om någon beter sig högerextremt, sprider högerextrem propaganda och backar högerextrema politiker, kan det helt enkelt bero på att personen är högerextrem.
11/6 2025:
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23/5 2025:
U.S. President Donald Trump confronted South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday with explosive false claims of white genocide and land seizures during a tense White House meeting that was reminiscent of his February ambush of Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyj.
[…] echoing a once-fringe conspiracy theory that has circulated in global far-right chat rooms for at least a decade with the vocal support of Trump's ally, South African-born Elon Musk, who was in the Oval Office during the meeting.
17/5 2025:
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13/3 2025:
[Elon Musk] shared a post on social media platform X on Thursday which said ‘Stalin, Mao, and Hitler didn't murder millions of people. Their public sector employees did.’
Musk Shares Claim That Stalin and Hitler Didn't Murder Millions: 'Public Sector Employees Did' (Haaretz)
4/3 2025:
The Tesla CEO appears undaunted, continuing to promote right-wing causes across Europe. […] The AfD’s growing popularity illustrates a phenomenon spreading across Europe as populist far-right parties make their biggest gains in decades.
26/2 2025:
22/2 2025:
Två exempel på personer som stöttar AfD är X-ägaren Elon Musk och den proryska influencern Alina Lipp.
21/2 2025:
16/2 2025:
Musk’s attention isn’t solely focused on Europe. The 18 countries where he has expressed support for right-wing movements or policies are spread over six continents — all except Antarctica.
14-15/2 2025:
Es ist offenbar das Ziel von Donald Trump, J.D. Vance und Elon Musk, dass in Deutschland eine Partei wie die AfD Macht bekommt. Die Gründe dafür dürften vielschichtig sein. Einer davon: Trump, Musk und Co. ist eine starke EU im Weg. Die AfD will ein Ende der EU in ihrer jetzigen Form. Da überschneiden sich die Interessen.
Warum Trumps Vize der AfD hilft (Der Spiegel)
A day after Mr. Vance stunned the Munich Security Conference by telling German leaders to drop their so-called firewall and allow the hard-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, to enter their federal government, Mr. Scholz accused Mr. Vance of effectively violating a commitment to never again allow Germany to be led by fascists who could repeat the horrors of the Holocaust.
The meeting with Alice Weidel, head of the anti-immigration, nationalist Alternative for Germany party, was a major step for her movement, which major parties have sought to bar from coalitions.
Vance meets with leader of far-right German party, exports MAGA message (Washington Post)
‘[JD Vance] told the WSJ he will tell German politicians to end the country’s longstanding firewall around the AfD, known as ‘Brandmaeur’, which prevents all parties from working with the far-right group.
JD Vance says Germany should work with the far right AfD and not ignore ‘the will of the people’ (The Independent)
Det kan bli ett politiskt svar. Det kan bli ett juridiskt svar. Jag kommer att analysera det här i lugn och ro efter att valet är över, säger [Friedrich Merz] till Wall Street Journal.
Friedrich Merz varning till Elon Musk (Expressen)
30/1 2025:
Immediately after video of the incident went viral, comparisons to Elon Musk’s apparent fascist gestures at Trump’s inauguration were made.
Michigan priest defrocked after making apparent Nazi salute at anti-abortion summit (The Guardian)
25/1 2025:
‘Kämpft für eine großartige Zukunft für Deutschland’, sagte Musk unter dem Jubel der nach Parteiangaben etwa 4500 AfD-Anhänger in der Messehalle.
Elon Musk bei AfD-Wahlkampfauftakt zugeschaltet (Der Spiegel)
‘The German people are really an ancient nation which goes back thousand of years,’ he said in Saturday's address. ‘I even read Julius Caesar was very impressed [by] the German tribes,’ he said, urging the [AfD] supporters to ‘fight, fight, fight’ for their country's future.
20/1 2025:
Tech billionaire Elon Musk, speaking at a Trump celebration rally at Washington's Capital One Arena, appeared to conclude his remarks with a ‘Roman salute,’ a fascist gesture most commonly associated with Nazi Germany, where it was performed alongside the phrase ‘Heil Hitler.’
Neo-nazis are celebrating Elon Musk making two Nazi-like salutes during a speech to tens of thousands of Trump supporters on Monday.
More than 80 French NGOs and organisations have said they will stop using the social media platform X – formerly Twitter – as of 20 January, the day of Donald Trump’s inauguration […] The organisations, while inviting other advocacy groups to 'leave X [in as great a number] as possible' said they would continue to communicate via other social networks, mentioning Bluesky and Mastodon.
10/1 2025:
Torsdagens samtal mellan Elon Musk och tyska AfD:s partiledare lät som en första dejt. Kärlekshistorien kan inte förklaras med affärsmässiga skäl – den är snarare ett resultat av den framväxande reflexiva fascismen.
More than 60 German and Austrian academic organizations say they will leave the messaging platform X owned by Elon Musk. […] In a statement, the institutions, which include some of Germany's most prestigious universities, said that X was steering a course that went against their principles.
9/1 2025:
Musk introduced the AfD's chancellor candidate Alice Weidel, whose party is second in polls but has almost no chance of forming a government due to other parties' refusal to work with it, as ‘the leading candidate to run Germany.’
Weidel’s shameless attempt to associate Hitler with her political enemies on the left was met with zero pushback from Musk. […] Musk gave Weidel a huge, uninhibited platform to spread her right-wing misinformation campaign.
Since asking [Naomi] Seibt about the AfD in June, Musk has engaged publicly with the self-professed libertarian more than 40 times, following two previous engagements with her on the platform earlier that year, putting her among a small group of European influencers whose content he has heavily interacted with in recent months, according to a Reuters review of his posts on X.
8/1 2025:
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HOPE not hate identified him after analysing over 160 anonymous accounts. Our work led to his arrest and now his imprisonment.
Our analysis shows that McIntyre is a previously unknown 39-year-old neo-Nazi who has had short-lived memberships of fascist groups including Patriotic Alternative, and was for a period a vocal supporter of Nigel Farage.
Twisted Firestarter: “Southport Wake Up” Founder Jailed Thanks To HOPE not hate Investigation (Hope not Hate)
McIntyre played a key role in co-ordinating the group who took to the streets on 30 July, using social media to encourage members of the group to turn up at the heart of the communities in Southport and Liverpool to commit criminal damage. The result left dozens of officers injured as bricks, bins and other missiles were thrown at them.
Man jailed for encouraging violent disorder and criminal damage (Merseyside Police)
6/1 2025:
Musk has repeatedly posted in support of Robinson, who is serving an 18-month prison sentence, pinning a post saying ‘Free Tommy Robinson!’ to the top of his page on X and posting or reposting content about Robinson and the U.K. government more than a dozen times on Wednesday alone.
Emmanuel Macron has added his voice to a growing chorus of European criticism of Elon Musk, accusing the world’s richest man of intervening directly in the continent’s democratic processes, including Germany’s snap federal elections next month.
5/1 2025:
‘Hands off our democracy, Mr. Musk!’ [German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck] told German news magazine Der Spiegel when asked whether Musk was a threat to Germany. He criticized Musk's outspoken support for the far-right AfD.
‘What I find much more worrying than such insults is that Musk is supporting a party like the AfD, which is in parts rightwing extremist, which preaches rapprochement with Putin’s Russia and wants to weaken transatlantic relations,’ said Scholz.
3/1 2025:
Elon Musk skickar ut en signal om vit makt till hundratals miljoner människor på X.
Någonstans måste det väl finnas en gräns, även för den höger som tycker att SD-samarbete är ett acceptabelt maktens pris?
2/1 2025:
Elon Musk is planning a live discussion with Alice Weidel, the chancellor candidate for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, ahead of Germany’s snap election on Feb. 23, according to a spokesperson for the party leader.
31/12 2024:
As of Tuesday, Musk's profile name on X is Kekius Maximus. His avatar features Pepe the Frog, a popular online character, dressed in ancient Roman attire and holding a video game controller. […] The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) listed Pepe the Frog a hate symbol in September 2016, calling it the ‘Alt Right's favorite meme.’
What Is Kekius Maximus? Elon Musk Changes X Name (Newsweek)
The [Kekistan] banner’s design, in fact, perfectly mimics a German Nazi war flag, with the Kek logo replacing the swastika and the green replacing the infamous German red.
What the Kek: Explaining the Alt-Right 'Deity' Behind Their 'Meme Magic' (Southern Poverty Law Center, 9/5 2017)
28/12 2024:
Elon Musk has taken a stunning new public step in his support for the far-right German political party Alternative for Germany (AfD), publishing a supportive guest opinion piece for the country’s Welt am Sonntag newspaper that has prompted the commentary editor to resign in protest.
The provocative potential in Germany from Mr. Musk’s support of the AfD partly reflects the party’s political stance, considered so far right as to be anti-democratic. All other political parties in Germany have precluded working with the AfD.
Musk Doubles Down on Support for German Far-Right Party (New York Times)
20/12 2024:
After Elon Musk posted his support for Germany's far-right AfD, the party's leader Alice Weidel expressed her gratitude.
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and a close adviser to President-elect Donald J. Trump, on Friday endorsed Germany’s far-right party [AfD], a group with ties to neo-Nazis whose youth wing has been classified as ‘confirmed extremist’ by German domestic intelligence.
Musk Expresses Support for Far-Right Party in Germany’s Election (New York Times)
In September, [AfD] became the first far-right party to win the most votes in a state election since the Nazi era, when it triumphed in Thuringia.
In May, a judge ruled that Germany’s domestic intelligence agency could continue to keep the AfD under surveillance for the alleged threat it poses to German democracy, rejecting a challenge by the party.
In May, the AfD was expelled from a pan-European parliamentary group of populist far-right parties after a string of controversies, including a comment by the senior AfD figure that the Nazi SS were ‘not all criminals’.
Outrage as Elon Musk claims ‘only AfD can save Germany’ (The Guardian)
AfD leader Björn Höcke has been accused of ‘whitewashing’ Nazi crimes and has criticized Germany’s Holocaust memorial in Berlin — a recognition of the horror of the more than 6 million Jews and others murdered — as a ‘monument of shame.’
‘Why is there such a negative reaction from some about AfD?’ the tech billionaire wrote on X in June. ‘They keep saying ‘far right,’ but the policies of AfD that I’ve read about don’t sound extremist. Maybe I’m missing something.’
Relaterat
Alternativ för Tyskland (AFD) (Expo, 23/1 2025)
Elon Musk und die extreme Rechte in Deutschland auf X (I): Interaktionen mit der AfD (CeMAS, 22/1 2025)
Germany’s Third Reich dog-whistlers are a fringe party no more (Washington Post, 29/8 2024)
AfD accused of using Nazi symbolism in election poster (The Times, 31/7 2024)
The dangerous resurgence of Germany’s far right, explained (Vox, 12/3 2024)
German far-right met to plan 'mass deportations' (BBC, 11/1 2024)
Antisemitism was rising online. Then Elon Musk’s X supercharged it. (Washington Post, 19/11 2023)
Elon Musk attacked German support for migrants and promoted a call to support a far-right extremist political party (Business Insider, 29/9 2023)
The True Proximity of Germany's AfD To Neo-Nazis (Der Spiegel, 27/7 2023)
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