OSLO: Norway\u2019s 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 countries outside of the United States.
\nMusk, a close ally of US President-elect Donald Trump, last month endorsed a German anti-immigration, anti-Islamic political party ahead of that country\u2019s national elections in February, and recently made remarks on British politics.
\n\u201cI find it worrying that a man with enormous access to social media and huge economic resources involves himself so directly in the internal affairs of other countries,\u201d Stoere told Norwegian public broadcaster NRK.
\n\u201cThis is not the way things should be between democracies and allies,\u201d he added.
\nIf Musk were to involve himself in Norwegian politics, the country\u2019s politicians should collectively distance themselves from such efforts, Stoere said.
\nMusk, the world\u2019s richest person, spent more than $250 million to help Trump get elected and has been tasked by Trump to prune the federal budget as a special adviser.
\nThe German government last week accused Musk, who owns social media platform X and is CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, of trying to influence Germany\u2019s upcoming election with a guest opinion piece for the Welt am Sonntag newspaper.
\nGerman Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck said Musk\u2019s support for Germany\u2019s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) was a \u201clogical and systematic\u201d play by the billionaire for a weak Europe that will not be able to regulate as strongly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
OSLO: Norway\u2019s 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 countries outside of the United States. Musk, a close ally of US President-elect Donald Trump, last month endorsed a German anti-immigration, anti-Islamic political party ahead of that country\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-453783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n