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埃隆·马斯克在X平台直播活动中助力德国极右翼政党
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/elon-musk-german-afd-alice-weidel-anti-immigrant-party-live-event-x-rcna186950
此次宣传活动对德国另类选择党（AfD）来说可能是一次绝佳的机会。该党一直被主流政治边缘化，部分原因是其领导人淡??化了纳粹的暴行。
马斯克将于周四在X平台与德国另类选择党领导人魏德尔进行一场对话。
图为德国另类选择党领导人爱丽丝·魏德尔周四在柏林与埃隆·马斯克进行直播对话前。
2025年1月9日，美国东部时间下午3:16
作者：David Ingram 和 Alexander Smith
周四，埃隆·马斯克在其社交媒体平台X上与德国极右翼反移民政党“德国另类选择党”（AfD）的一位领导人举行了一场直播活动。这是这位科技亿万富翁在欧洲和北美地区为反动候选人争取支持的最新举措。
作为世界首富，马斯克与AfD联合领导人爱丽丝·魏德尔进行了超过一个小时的对话，这无疑为该反移民政党在下个月即将举行的全国大选前带来了一次高调的宣传。
马斯克的免费宣传对AfD来说无疑是一大利好。该党一直被排除在德国主流政治之外，部分原因是其领导人淡??化了纳粹的暴行。德国国内情报机构正在监控德国另类选择党（AfD）的极端主义倾向。去年，一家德国法院维持了这种监控，认定部分AfD成员支持建立双轨制社会，即赋予“德裔”公民比移民背景人士更多权利。
马斯克和魏德尔的谈话总体上很友好，魏德尔表示这种氛围对她来说很不寻常。
“对我来说，能够进行正常的对话，不被打断或被负面评价，这完全是全新的体验，”她说。她称马斯克是一位“有远见的人”。
自2022年收购当时名为Twitter的X公司以来，马斯克已将这款应用打造成宣传其政治理念的扩音器，并助力当选总统唐纳德·特朗普去年的复出。马斯克还恢复了此前被封禁的新纳粹分子的账号，并允许他们在平台上蓬勃发展，包括提供高级会员特权、分享广告收入和销售订阅服务的机会。
据X平台的数据显示，在任何特定时间，都有超过10万个账户收听这场纯音频聊天；总共有超过1100万个账户浏览了X平台上的讨论帖。目前尚不清楚其中有多少账户位于德国。
此次事件可能会对X在欧洲的运营产生监管影响。周二，欧洲社会党发表声明，抗议马斯克的计划，并要求欧盟“动用一切法律手段，保护民主免受社交媒体上的虚假信息和外国干预”。X平台目前已因涉嫌违反欧盟《数字服务法》而接受调查。
X平台尚未就此次事件的潜在影响做出回应。
西班牙首相佩德罗·桑切斯周三表示，“极右翼”正由“地球上最富有的人”领导——他指的是特斯拉和SpaceX的首席执行官马斯克，但并未直接点名——他还声称，该运动“煽动仇恨，并公开支持德国的纳粹继承人”。
在访谈中，马斯克表示，在他看来，德国另类选择党（AfD）的立场“完全符合常理”，并列举了该党在能源政策和减少移民方面的观点。不过，他也承认，他和AfD在太阳能的价值问题上存在分歧：马斯克是太阳能的主要支持者，而AfD则希望削减太阳能投入。
马斯克的特斯拉在柏林郊外拥有一家大型工厂，该公司在试图扩大业务规模的过程中，一直面临着当地的反对。
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AfD自2013年成立以来稳步发展——远早于马斯克表示支持该组织。在2月23日举行的提前大选前（此次大选是由于德国左翼领导的联合政府垮台而提前举行的），AfD在全国民调中位列第二。去年，德国另类选择党（AfD）成为二战以来首个赢得德国州选举的极右翼政党。
其他德国政党因其极端立场而拒绝与AfD组建联合政府。
AfD否认自身是极端主义政党，并驳斥这些指控是当权派试图将其排除在主流政治之外的伎俩。尽管如此，该党领导人已明确表示，他们认为德国应该停止为纳粹大屠杀和第三帝国的其他政策道歉。
魏德尔在被马斯克问及对该党的批评时表示，AfD与希特勒的政党“截然相反”。她还表示，欧洲的左翼政党才是反犹主义者。
“我们一直被错误地描述，我们希望澄清事实。”
Elon Musk boosts German far right party with live event on X
The publicity was a potential boon for AfD, which has been frozen out of mainstream politics, in part, because its leaders have downplayed Nazi atrocities.
Alice Weidel, a leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany party, prior to a live discussion with Elon Musk from Berlin on Thursday.
Musk, the wealthiest person in the world, spent more than an hour speaking with Alice Weidel, co-leader of AfD, giving the anti-immigrant party a high-profile boost ahead of the national elections scheduled for next month.
The free publicity from Musk was a potential boon for AfD, which has been frozen out of mainstream German politics, in part, because its leaders have downplayed Nazi atrocities. The country’s domestic intelligence agencies are monitoring the AfD for extremism, and a German court upheld the surveillance last year, finding that some AfD members favor a two-tier society in which “ethnic” Germans are given more rights than people from immigrant backgrounds.
The conversation between Musk and Weidel was generally friendly, a dynamic that Weidel said was unusual for her.
“It’s a completely new situation for me that I just can have a normal conversation and I’m not interrupted or negatively framed,” she said. She called Musk a “visionary.”
Since purchasing X, then known as Twitter, in 2022, Musk has transformed the app into a megaphone for his own politics, helping to propel the comeback last year of President-elect Donald Trump. Musk has also reinstated the accounts of previously suspended neo-Nazis and allowed them to flourish on the platform, including with premium privileges and the opportunity to share in ad revenue and sell subscriptions.
More than 100,000 accounts were listening to the audio-only chat at any given time and, in all, more than 11 million accounts viewed the X post where the discussion took place, according to metrics on X. It wasn’t clear how many of the accounts were in Germany.
The event could have regulatory consequences for X in Europe. On Tuesday, the Party of European Socialists protested against Musk’s plans in a statement and asked the European Union to “use all the legal means available to protect democracy against misinformation and foreign interference on social media.” X is already under investigation for potential violations of the union’s Digital Services Act.
X did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the potential fallout.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Wednesday that the “ultra right” was being led “by the richest man on the planet” — referencing the Tesla and SpaceX CEO without naming him directly — and he alleged that the movement “incites hatred and openly supports the heirs of Nazism in Germany.”
Musk, during the chat, said that to him, AfD’s positions were “just common sense” and he cited the party’s views on energy policy and reducing immigration. He acknowledged, though, that he and AfD disagree on the value of solar energy, with Musk as a major proponent and AfD wanting to cut back.
Musk’s Tesla has a major factory outside Berlin, and the company has battled local opposition as it tries to expand its footprint.
AfD has grown steadily since its founding in 2013 — long before Musk offered the organization his support. Going into snap elections Feb. 23, called after the collapse of Germany’s left-led coalition government, AfD is polling in second place nationally. Last year, AfD became the first far-right party to win a state election in Germany since World War II.
Other German political parties have refused to join coalitions with AfD because of its extreme positions.
The AfD denies it is extremist, rejecting the allegations as an attempt by the establishment to exclude it from mainstream politics. Nonetheless, its leaders have made it clear they believe Germany should stop apologizing for the Holocaust and other policies of the Third Reich.
Weidel, asked by Musk to respond to criticism of the party, said that AfD is “exactly the opposite” of Adolf Hitler’s party. She said that it’s left-wing political parties in Europe that are antisemitic.
“We are wrongly framed the entire time, and we would like to free the people of the state,” she said.
Musk has been fascinated with the idea of a future civil war in Europe, and he has boosted right-wing politicians in various nations including Italy and the United Kingdom. Earlier this week, leaders in four European countries denounced Musk’s influence.
AfD’s rise is part of a wider surge for the far right across Europe, causing anxiety among opponents across the political spectrum. But it is felt particularly acutely in Germany, whose Nazi past of 80 years ago still looms large in the form of laws banning Holocaust denial, support of Hitler and swastikas.
Opponents of AfD find further evidence in rhetoric by leaders such as AfD co-founder Alexander Gauland, who was widely condemned in 2016 for comments about German soccer star Jérôme Boateng, who has a Ghanaian-born father. Germans “like him as a football player,” Gauland said. “But they don’t want to have a Boateng as their neighbor.”
Gauland has described the Nazi era as “just a speck of bird’s muck in more than 1,000 years of successful German history.”
And in 2017, regional leader Björn Höcke caused outrage when describing a planned Holocaust memorial in Berlin as a “memorial of shame.” Höcke was also fined 13,000 euros (around $13,400) last year for using the phrase “Alles für Deutschland,” meaning “Everything for Germany,” the well-known slogan of Hitler’s Brownshirt SA paramilitaries.
