German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has dismissed an assertion by Elon Musk that only a far-right party can “save Germany.”

A senior lawmaker from Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats railed against Elon Musk’s interference in German politics and called for a new antitrust act to constrain his influence in the corporate world.

Musk has been amplifying right-wing, anti-immigration voices on X for years and has already questioned criticism aimed at the AfD back in June. In September 2023, he denounced Germany for giving money to charities and rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean Sea.

Musk was roasted on his own social media platform by a political scientist, a fellow billionaire and many others.

Elon Musk was blasted by German and U.S. lawmakers for backing a German far-right political party on X, formerly Twitter on Thursday.

Germany’s intelligence agency has monitored the party, known as Alternative for Germany, for suspected extremism.

Germany's Olaf Scholz has dismissed an assertion by Elon Musk, who said that a far-right party can “save Germany'. Germany is set to vote in an early election in February next year following the collapse of Scholz's three-party governing coalition collapsed last month.

X owner Elon Musk posted (archived) on the site: "Only the AfD can save Germany." Following the post, which had more than 50 million views at the time of this writing, claims abounded about the politics of the political party,