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For context, Alice Weidel is the chancellor candidate in Germany for the far right AFD party.
Here is the fact check on the interview by German public news channel Tagesschau: https://www.tagesschau.de/faktenfinder/musk-weidel-102.html
Interesting detail in the video image is that Weidel has behind her head quite prominent on the bookshelf a copy of “Die Deutsche Mark”. https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Frank-Stocker/dp/3959726171 Could it be coincidence or a hint?
Here is another fact checking by Deutsche Welle (wikipedia says "German public, state-owned international broadcaster"): https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-do-musk-and-weidels-claims-hold-up/a-71260584
Few personal comments on the fact checking of DW and Tagesschau (which talk about similar points, it almost seems DW is a translation of Tagesschau): - I think to fact check that "Nuclear energy isn't ENTIRELY carbon free" is a bit... pedantic and distracts from Weidel's point which was that the current energy system uses gas and coal and that they are much worse than nuclear. - "Theft legal in California," I think there are basically 1000 documentaries online that do a pretty good job documenting Prop 47 and my impression is that theft was indeed under-prosecuted in e.g. SF. I think you can say that "theft was legal." Also, I kinda find it ridiculous that the DW/Tagesschau feels credible to fact-check Elon on what happens in SF. I'd assume that a SV tech guy kinda knows what is going on in SF, no? Where do the DW and Tagesschau authors of these articles live? - "Did Merkel open the borders" IMO this one is also a bit pedantic. Yeah it is true that Angela Merkel didn't, in person, physically open the German borders, but I think everyone who lived through this time knows what Weidel's claim here is, namely that under Merkel there was a very liberal position towards immigration into Germany. I honestly find it a bit embarrassing that this is the reaction of the German state-owned media outlets. I'd wish they reacted with a bit more media competency. By insisting on their strictly factual view, they're not moving the conversation forward and in a direction that would positively influence the election. E.g. rather than insisting that nuclear emits a little bit of CO2, I think it could have made more sense to promote the green energy transition in Germany and to create excitement and awareness around how well this is going and what the benefits for Germany are. This is especially needed internationally