Elon Musk’s Amplification of Europe’s Hard-Right: A Threat to Sovereign Democracies

Elon Musk, the billionaire who controls the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), has emerged as an unaccountable kingmaker, wielding his vast digital reach to boost hard-right political figures across Europe. Despite stepping away from his Trump advisory role and trading barbs with former President Trump, Musk leverages his online dominance to amplify nationalist and extremist voices abroad—voices that challenge the foundational principles of free societies and transatlantic alliances. Is America’s Social Media Kingpin Unwittingly Empowering Extremists Overseas? Across Germany, Britain, Italy, Spain, Cyprus, and other countries, far-right politicians and agitators have seen meteoric rises in their audiences on X...