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.
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.
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…