The French president accuses the richest man in the world of interfering directly with democratic processes on the continent.

Emmanuel Macron joined the chorus of European critics of Elon Musk. He accused the richest man in the world of interfering directly with democratic processes on the continent, including Germany’s snap federal election next month.

On Monday, the French president responded with the Norwegian, British and German prime ministers as well as a spokesperson for the German government to Musk’s hostile posts that backed far-right parties and attacked leftwing politicians across Europe.

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Macron said: “Ten year ago, who could have imagined the owner of the largest social network in the world would support a new reactionary international movement and interfere directly in elections in Germany, among others?”

The French president did not mention Musk by name in a speech he gave to French ambassadors. Nor did Norway’s centre left prime minister Jonas Gahr Store.

It was clear to all that either leader was speaking.

Store said to NRK, “I find that worrying. A man with such access to social media as well as huge economic resources is so directly involved in the internal affairs other countries.” This is not how things should be done between democratic countries and their allies.

Store responded to a question regarding what would happen if Musk were to directly involve himself in Norwegian politics by saying that he hopes the politicians of Norway, who are facing a general elections in September, “would warn against and distance themselves from such efforts”.

Musk was mentioned by name by a German government spokesperson, who insisted that his influence over voters was limited. The spokesperson said that “normal people, sensible, decent people make up a large majority of the population in this country.”

The spokesperson continued, “We act as though Mr Musk’s tweets could influence an 84-million-person country with half-truths, untruths, or opinions.” “This is not true.”

Berlin accused Musk last week, who is the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX as well, of trying influence the 23 February federal election with a controversial opinion piece written by a guest for the Welt am Sonntag.

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Alice Weidel is Alice Weidel’s leader, the anti-immigration Alternative fur Deutschland party. The livestreamed chat will take place later this week. In a blog post he wrote that “only AfD could save Germany”.

Musk claimed that the party’s second place in the polls is the “last ray of hope” for Germany. Musk has called Olaf Scholz the Social Democratic Chancellor of Germany “a fool”, and Frank-Walter Steinmeier its President, an “antidemocratic tyrant”.

Robert Habeck said that the support of Musk for the AfD by the billionaire was “logical and systemic” for a Europe that is weaker and less able to regulate tech companies and social media.

Scholz said in an interview at the weekend with Stern magazine, that he wouldn’t make any effort to engage Musk. “I do not believe in courting Mr Musk’s favor. “I’m happy to let others do that,” he said. The rule is to not feed the troll.

Keir starmer, the British Prime Minister, defended himself on Monday after Musk’s hostile attacks. He said that those spreading misinformation and lies online did not care about helping others, but only themselves.

Musk’s tirade focused on scandals of child sexual abuse that emerged first during Starmer’s tenure as director for public prosecutions. He demanded a new inquiry and called on the Labour Prime Minister to resign.

Starmer responded to a Musk question by saying he “wouldn’t individualise it to Elon Musk”, but that “a line had been crossed” in some of the criticism. Musk described the prime Minister as “utterly disgusting” in a post on X.