The German government on Monday sought to downplay efforts by tech entrepreneur Elon Musk to get involved in the country’s general election campaign by again endorsing the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, party.

Musk caused uproar over the weekend after backing the AfD in an opinion piece in a major newspaper, leading to the resignation of the paper’s opinion editor in protest.

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    5 days ago

    Good, hopefully it’ll get some results. We saw what happened in the US if no one speaks up about it, they’re drifting closer and closer to an oligarchy.