Musk ‘lying like hell’ over AfD interview, says ex-EU tech leader

Former EU commissioner Thierry Breton has accused Elon Musk of "lying like hell" by claiming the EU tried to stop his interview with Alice Weidel, co-leader of Germany's far-right Alternative für Deutschland. Musk posted on X that the EU was trying to prevent people from hearing the conversation, which took place on Thursday evening, after Breton sent Weidel a warning similar to a letter he had sent Musk before Musk's August interview with Donald Trump. Breton said nobody had tried to stop Musk's conversations with Trump or in Germany, and that the Digital Services Act does not silence critics. X, which is under a European Commission investigation under that law, did not respond to a request for comment.