Elon Musk published a controversial guest opinion piece supporting the far-right AfD for the prominent Welt am Sonntag newspaper, prompting the commentary editor to resign.

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    7 days ago

    The article states that she was the editor for the opinion section… this was published in the opinion section… I think it’s still reasonable to conclude that she attempted to stop it from being published, even if she was not the person with the final say

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      The publication of the article was enforced by Mathias Döpfner, who is the CEO of Axel Springer, which owns “Die Welt”. There is a lot of damage control ongoing at “Die Welt” at the moment, with opinion pieces and comments by some editors, why this article was a mistake.

      Nevertheless, still a very shitty rightwing newspaper.

      There is also a rumour in circulation that Döpfner motivated Musk to buy Twitter in the past…

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      5 days ago

      There is zero reason for such conclusions. You could just read her statement

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        I did read her statement. Do you have an alternative inference that you think is more reasonable?