Musk called for German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to "resign immediately" in response to an attack on a Christmas market in Magdeburg.

A senior lawmaker from Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats railed against Elon Musk’s interference in German politics and called for a new antitrust act to constrain his influence in the corporate world.

Elon Musk, billionaire entrepreneur and owner of X (formerly Twitter), has ignited outrage after calling for German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s resignati.

A party leader called for a modern version of a 1890 US law banning monopolistic business practices. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Elon Musk appears to be leaning even further into a full neo-Nazi embrace. Following his social media assault to block a congressional spending bill meant to avoid a government shutdown, the tech billionaire took to X and described the racist, far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as Germany’s last, best hope.

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Musk's increased political and economic influence has prompted comparisons to George Soros, but supporters say Musk is a different case.

President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk at Madison Square Garden in New York ... called after Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a confidence vote. “Only the AfD can save Germany,” Musk said on X, the morning before a deadly attack at a Christmas market ...

On Sunday, police in Bremerhaven, a port city in northern Germany, detained a man who took to TikTok to threaten violence. The man is alleged to have warned he would stab any person of Arabic appearance in the city on Christmas Day, the German news agency dpa reported.

BERLIN (Reuters) -Here is what we know so far about the man who was arrested as the suspected driver in a car-ramming attack on Friday at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg in which