Oslo (TDI): Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said on Monday that he found it worrying that billionaire Elon Musk was involving himself in the political issues of nations outside of the United States.
Musk, a close ally of US President-elect Donald Trump, last month endorsed a German anti-Islamic, anti-immigration political party ahead of that country’s national elections in February, and recently made remarks on British politics.
“I am concerned that a man with vast economic resources and significant social media influence is so directly involved in the internal affairs of other nations,” Stoere said.
He added that this is not the way things should be between democracies and allies.
If Musk were to involve himself in politics of Norway, the country’s politicians should collectively distance themselves from such efforts, Stoere said.
Musk, the world’s richest person, spent over $250 million to help Donald Trump get elected and has been tasked by Trump to prune the federal budget as a special adviser.
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German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck stated Musk’s support for Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany was a “logical and systematic” play by the billionaire for a weak Europe that will not be able to regulate as strongly.
