Musk Says The AP News Agency Stands For ‘Associated Propaganda’

The Tesla CEO Elon Musk has accused the global news agency, the Associated Press (AP), of disseminating propaganda following their coverage of Friday’s deadly incident at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg.

Musk said that the agency, commonly known as AP, stood for “Associated Propaganda” in a post on X that criticizes its reporting of the attack on civilians.

RT reports: Musk’s comment was in response to criticism by an X user over the Associated Press’s headline about the incident. The headline read, “A car has driven into a group of people at a Christmas market in Germany.”

The user accused AP of using passive language that downplayed the severity of the attack, stating, “You don’t hate the legacy media enough. The Associated Press uses a passive voice when reporting on the Christmas market terror attack in Magdeburg, Germany. As if the car simply drove itself peacefully, and the affected number of people small and insignificant.”

“It wasn’t a ‘group of people’—it was an entirely mass of people whose bodies were flung by the force of the impact, and many more who were crushed beneath the wheels as the vehicle zigzagged its way through the packed market,” he added.

A speeding vehicle rammed into a crowd at Magdeburg’s festive market on Friday evening, resulting in at least four fatalities, including a child, and injuring over 60 people, Bild reported, citing police.

The driver, identified as a 50-year-old Saudi Arabian doctor residing in Germany, was detained by police at the scene. Authorities have classified the act as a deliberate attack, though the motive remains under investigation.