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Pressure mounts on Farage to resign after break with Musk – POLITICO.eu

Ten Reform UK councillors quit in protest over the “incompetent or malevolent” management of the far-right party.
A group of 10 Reform UK councillors have resigned in a bid to get Nigel Farage to step down as the right-wing party’s leader.
The councillors — all of whom are from the Derbyshire region, which is considered key for Reform’s electoral expansion — on Friday said the party’s current management is “either incompetent or malevolent” […]
Pressure mounts on Farage to resign after break with Musk – POLITICO.eu

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Elon Musk and the new world order: the hijacking of the global conversation

How can we publicly debate policy in the face of the rising – and polarising – influence of the X owner and others whose only aim is to serve themselves
How should we as a society interact with one another, debate, come to decisions? What impels politicians to focus and act on one thing and not another?
The Athenians had the Agora, where (male, slave-owning) citizens gathered to debate and decide the issues of the day. In the early 20th century, John Reith envisioned the BBC, in a most […]
Elon Musk and the new world order: the hijacking of the global conversation

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Elon Musk's man in the European Parliament – POLITICO.eu

Independent MEP Fidias Panayiotou met the billionaire in 2023 and has taken his line on some big political issues, from Ukraine to digital rules.
In December 2024, Elon Musk posted a clip on X of a 24-year-old Cypriot lawmaker in the European Parliament arguing it was time to stop aiding Ukraine in its resistance against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion.
In one of his hallmark close-ups to the camera — that would have been music to Putin’s ears — the […]
Elon Musk's man in the European Parliament – POLITICO.eu

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When Elon met Alice: 9 weird moments from Musk's German far-right chuckle-fest

God! Martians! A “communist” Hitler! It was heavy on oddness and light on policy as the X owner and the AfD co-leader hit it off.
BERLIN — With lots of laughter, earnest agreement and effusive mutual appreciation, it started off like a promising date between two nervous teenagers (she even forgave him for getting her name wrong). 
But by the end of the night, Elon Musk’s live conversation with far-right German politician Alice Weidel had veered off the rails — and […]
When Elon met Alice: 9 weird moments from Musk's German far-right chuckle-fest

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Brussels will be watching whether Musk breaks EU law in far-right livestream – POLITICO

Up to 150 experts in Brussels and Seville will be checking whether Musk’s livestream interview boosts the German far right.
BRUSSELS — When tech tycoon Elon Musk interviews German far-right leader Alice Weidel on X on Thursday night, Europe’s powerful tech regulators will be watching closely for possible violations of EU law.
They’ll be less concerned with the banter than with how the Musk-owned platform and algorithm pushes the livestream to its more than 100 million EU […]
Brussels will be watching whether Musk breaks EU law in far-right livestream – POLITICO

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Boost for the Right Wing: Why Did a German Newspaper Help Elon Musk Interfere in …

Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner and U.S. billionaire Elon Musk in 2020
For many journalists at the German daily Die Welt, the scene must have seemed rather farcical. Speaking in the editorial conference last Monday, Editor-in-Chief Ulf Poschardt said that “all the debates had ruined” his Christmas. As though a bit of peace and quiet over the winter holidays was the only thing at stake – and not a clash that has stirred up the newsroom to a greater degree than anything else in recent […]
Boost for the Right Wing: Why Did a German Newspaper Help Elon Musk Interfere in …