{"id":2385139,"date":"2024-12-31T17:15:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T22:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/german-chancellor-urges-public-not-to-let-elon-musk-influence-elections\/"},"modified":"2024-12-31T17:16:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T22:16:49","slug":"german-chancellor-urges-public-not-to-let-elon-musk-influence-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/german-chancellor-urges-public-not-to-let-elon-musk-influence-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"German chancellor urges public not to let Elon Musk influence elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgerman-chancellor-urges-public-not-to-let-elon-musk-influence-elections%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2385139&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nbc-releases-statement-announcing-ronna-mcdaniel-is-out-just-days-after-hiring\/\" title=\"NBC announced the departure of Ronna McDaniel shortly after her recent hiring\">provided text \u200dappears<\/a> to include a button for \u2064revealing more content, intended for website visitors.\u2063 The button, labeled &#8220;Read more&#8230;&#8221;, suggests that additional data can be accessed by clicking it.Below this button, there are various \u2062HTML and\u2064 XML snippets that <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">include mobile menu icons<\/a> and a search\u2062 button, likely related to the website&#8217;s navigation and search features. 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He added that the nation&rsquo;s future &ldquo;will not be decided by the owners of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">social media<\/a> channels&rdquo; but instead &ldquo;will be up to the vast majority of reasonable and decent people.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">German Chancellor Olaf Scholz addresses a media conference at the end of an EU summit on Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024, in Brussels. (AP Photo\/Omar Havana)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The allusion to social media ownership is a clear reference to Musk, who was recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign-policy\/3272596\/german-government-criticizes-elon-musk-influence-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">accused by the German government<\/a> of meddling in its national politics after writing an opinion piece in support of the right-wing Alternative for Germany party.<\/p>\n<p>Musk has previously called Scholz a &ldquo;fool&rdquo; on social media.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In our debates, one can be forgiven for sometimes thinking the more extreme an opinion is, the more attention it will garner,&rdquo; Scholz said in his Tuesday address. &ldquo;What I wish for is that we will not let ourselves be played off each other.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite the bad blood, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uc-berkeley-making-several-changes-to-combat-antisemitism-this-school-year-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"UC Berkeley making several changes to combat antisemitism this school year - Washington Examiner\">chancellor&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s office has affirmed that Musk is free to offer his perspective on German politics.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;After all, freedom of opinion also covers the greatest nonsense,&rdquo; Scholz spokeswoman Christiane Hoffman said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1922352\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1922352\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German chancellor urges citizens to resist Elon Musk&#8217;s influence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3468,"featured_media":2385140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/AP24354751185840.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6571,32192,39346,36673,47677],"class_list":["post-2385139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-elections","tag-elon-musk","tag-german-chancellor","tag-political-interference","tag-public-influence"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/AP24354751185840.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2385139"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2385143,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385139\/revisions\/2385143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2385140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2385139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2385139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2385139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}