The world’s richest person has heaped praise on the Alternative for Deutschland party in recent weeks ahead of the country’s upcoming election.

Musk's response to the accusations has included the complaint that the "legacy media" is trying to cancel him.

After facing backlash for gestures at Trump’s inauguration event and attempts to make Nazi-related puns on X, Elon Musk told supporters of Germany’s far-right AfD party there is “too much of a focus on past guilt.