Musk rattles European politics
The World
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4.6 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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European leaders are alarmed about what they see as foreign election meddling. It's coming from Elon Musk, the wealthiest man on Earth and a close adviser to US President-elect Donald Trump. Musk has been using his global social media megaphone to promote far-right politicians in Europe, like the Alternative for Germany (AFD) party, which has been named an extremist group by Germany's own intelligence agencies.Also, Nicolás Maduro will be inaugurated as president in Venezuela later this week. Despite widespread accusations of election fraud.And, Ukrainian war refugees in Moldova, looking to stay for the long term.
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| 0:00.0 | Europe has experience with foreign political meddling, but not from someone like Elon Musk, |
| 0:11.0 | who has been pushing some pretty extreme far-right views. |
| 0:14.4 | The fact that he is very close to Trump, the fact that he's the wealthiest man on earth, |
| 0:18.1 | the fact that he has control of a platform like Twitter, |
| 0:22.4 | makes him radically dangerous. |
| 0:28.7 | I'm Carolyn Beeler, how Musk is stoking anxiety across the pond and HMPV. |
| 0:34.0 | It is a respiratory disease spreading in China that can be dangerous to kids and older folks. |
| 0:35.9 | Here's the good news, though. |
| 0:39.2 | The vast majority of people is basically just a cold. |
| 0:45.3 | How a new space race is playing out between the U.S. and China, and we'll meet war refugees from Ukraine who found a new home right next door in Moldova. |
| 0:49.6 | My name is Dasch. |
| 0:51.1 | ABC. |
| 0:52.7 | Those stories and more today on the world. |
| 0:57.7 | This is The World. |
| 0:59.1 | I'm Carolyn Beeler. |
| 1:00.2 | Thank you for joining us. |
| 1:01.6 | We start the show today in Europe where high-level officials in several countries are denouncing what they see as a new threat to their democracies. |
| 1:09.3 | A threat in the form of Elon Musk. The American |
| 1:12.9 | tech billionaire and advisor to president-elect Donald Trump has been wading into European |
| 1:17.9 | politics, tweeting a barrage of attacks against politicians he doesn't like. The World's Europe |
| 1:23.3 | correspondent Orla Berry reports this is not going over well with many leaders there. |
| 1:28.3 | For months, politicians in Europe have been walking on eggshells around Elon Musk. |
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