Germany’s SPD Calls for Antitrust Act to Clip Elon Musk’s Power

Elon Musk has twice jumped into German politics in the X-days.

Photographer: Allison Robbert/AFP/Bloomberg

A senior lawmaker from Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic party has denounced Elon Musk’s meddling in German politics and called for a new antitrust law to restrict his influence in the business world.

“Elon Musk’s new provocations are more than irritating,” said Dirk Wiese, deputy head of the social democratic organization in the German Bundestag. “The time has come to move forward with a modern edition of the Sherman Antitrust Act,” he added, referring to the 1890 US law that prohibited monopolistic business practices.

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