Salts responds to the Mask attacks: “Don’t feed the troll, we don’t need his favor, we leave it to others”

Germany’s chancellor probably found the strategy to address the online political disruption the tycoon has caused the technology, Politico reports. “There are many in social media who want to draw attention with impressive slogans. The rule is: Don’t feed the troll. I don’t think we should try to win Mr. Elon Musk’s favor. I am happy to leave this to others,” Olaf Salts said in an interview with the German weekly magazine Stern, published on Saturday (04.01.2025). CORVERSE The statements by the German Social Democrat chancellor are the last act in an ongoing confrontation with the billionaire and owner of “X”, who had called him “fool” and had predicted that he would “lost” in Germany’s early federal election, scheduled for February 23. Musk has openly supported the far-right AfD party and has attacked other German politicians, calling Germany’s president, Frank-Walter Steinmeyer – also a member of the Social Democratic Party – “undemocratic tyrant”. Speaking in Budestag, Germany’s federal lower House, the country’s president warned a few days ago against the efforts “of influence from abroad” of the parliamentary elections and was nominally mentioned in “X”. CORVERSE Musk has expressed his support for the far-right party Alternative to Germany (AfD), causing a political storm in the country. Berlin’s accusations of trying to intervene in the upcoming election were accompanied by new critical comments by Salts in his New Year’s speech. As Politico points out, the owner of Tesla and Space X, expected to play a role in the new US government, due to his support for the new president Donald Trump, is gaining increasingly political influence, using the X platform (former Twitter), which he often uses to promote his views. Elon Musk is to host a discussion with the head of the far-right AfD, Alice Weidell, who is the party’s candidate for chancellery in the early February election, next Thursday, January 9. In his interview at Stern, Olaf Salts promised to maintain his temper over personal attacks: “As Social Democrats, we are used to the fact that there are wealthy media entrepreneurs who do not appreciate social democratic policy – and do not hide their views,” he stressed.