In a post on Substack, Samuel Samson, a senior adviser in the department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, wrote that the German government “has established elaborate systems to monitor and censor online speech under the guise of combating disinformation and preventing offense.” When Musk appeared virtually at an AfD campaign event in January, he leaned into a talking point consistent with the party’s desire to move beyond the guilt over Nazi-era atrocities, lamenting that “there is too much focus on past guilt.” The same week, Musk faced criticism after he offered a gesture many found similar to a Nazi salute at a Trump rally in Washington. In its designation of AfD as an extremist organization on May 2, the German intelligence agency asserted that the party “aims to exclude certain population groups from equal participation in society.” AfD also does not consider German nationals with histories of migration from Muslim countries as equal to German people, the agency added at the time.
Author: Henry J. Gomez
Published at: 2025-05-28 22:44:41
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