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 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…