Elon Musk, via his social media platform X, is now the world's most popular journalist — and leftist politicians are furious.
The EU government had around 150 "thought police" listening to Musk's conversation with conservative German politician Alice Weidel on Thursday — according to Politico.
1.8 million people tuned into the X broadcast.
It is said the EU is seeking opportunities to fine and censor X over disseminating supposedly dangerous information on the free-speech platform — said analyst Michael Shellenberger.
Weidel "the leading candidate to run Germany" is considered hateful by some for her tough position on immigration. In her conversation with Musk, she said she has been labeled an extremist for promoting responsible government.
Over the last 15 years, explained Weidel, around 7 million migrants flooded into Germany. The German government, she said, allowed many migrants to throw away their passports before entering the country, making deportation impossible.
"So our state, the Angela Merkel government and the last one, they proclaimed a policy that everyone can choose to cross our border to immigrate into our social security system and cannot be deported afterwards, because they threw away their passports," said Weidel.
Musk responded, "That's exactly what happened in the U.S."
Weidel, co-chairwoman of the Alternative for Germany party, also called-out the German government for shutting down nuclear power plants in favour of wind and solar energy.
"In my point of view, Angela Merkel the first green Chancellor, ruined basically our country," she said.
"Germany is the only industrial country that unplugged its nuclear power plants. So the aim of Angela Merkel was to enforce just solar and wind energy, and you don't need to be very smart to know that you cannot run a industrial country with just wind and solar because you don't have any electricity when the sun doesn't shine and when the wind doesn't blow."
