Who is Naomi Seibt, German influencer Musk engaged with publicly over 40 times?
India TodayOn his public journey to embracing Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany, Elon Musk has frequently amplified the online content of one young supporter of the party - climate change and COVID-19 lockdown sceptic Naomi Seibt. Since asking Seibt about the AfD in June, Musk has engaged publicly with the self-professed libertarian more than 40 times, following two previous engagements with her on the platform earlier that year, putting her among a small group of European influencers whose content he has heavily interacted with in recent months, according to a Reuters review of his posts on X. Musk, who has more than 211 million followers on the platform, did not respond to requests for comment for this story. By December, Musk's public support for the AfD was explicit, with his public posts saying the party would "save" Germany. According to a review of subsequent posts on the platform, Musk didn't appear to have mentioned the AfD again until his June 9 reply to Seibt's post declaring her vote for the party, in which he said he had been reading up, and that the party's policies "don't sound extremist."