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suegeo

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Mon Jan 6, 2025, 06:40 PM Jan 2025

Macron Says Musk 'Directly Intervening In Elections, Including Germany' [View all]



https://www.barrons.com/news/macron-says-musk-directly-intervening-in-elections-including-germany-897c191d

French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday accused Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of social media platform X, of intervening in elections, including Germany's snap legislative polls next month.

"Ten years ago, who could have imagined it if we had been told that the owner of one of the largest social networks in the world would support a new international reactionary movement and intervene directly in elections, including in Germany," Macron said in a speech to French ambassadors, while also saying US president-elect Donald Trump "knows he has a strong ally in France".

1st reported by AFP news. I don't speak French, so I don't have the ability to find the original article on AFP news.
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