"Olaf Scholz: German election ‘will not be decided by social media owners’," 31 December 2024

The German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has urged voters not to let the “owners of social media channels” decide next year’s snap election...

Without mentioning Musk or his platform, X, explicitly, Scholz urged Germans to resist manipulation and to stand up for their democracy...

Scholz noted there had been a surge of disinformation on social media after the Christmas market attack in Magdeburg on 20 December in which five people were killed and more than 200 injured...