# Corporate Leaders Can Hold Elon Musk Accountable.

1 Opinion February 12, 2025 Newsweek ![Michael Posner](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_046658.jpg?itok=t24nqftK)By Michael Posner

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Since 2025 began, Elon Musk has registered his enthusiastic support for Alternative for Germany (AfD), a far-right political party notorious for its use of Nazi-era slogans and imagery. He's urged Germans not to give "too much of a focus on past guilt." In this country he is leading an effort to shut down or weaken a range of federal agencies, like USAID, that were created and funded by the U.S. Congress.

This behavior isn't coming from a rogue internet troll—it's coming from a man who sits at the top of corporate America.

With Elon Musk deeply embedded in the Trump administration, it is unlikely that anyone in the White House will demand a shift in his behavior and rhetoric. Quite the opposite; it appears that his proximity to power has emboldened his worst instincts.

Read the full [*Newsweek* article](https://www.newsweek.com/corporate-leaders-can-hold-elon-musk-accountable-opinion-2030087).
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*Michael Posner is the Jerome Kohlberg Professor of Ethics and Finance, Professor of Business and Society and Director of the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights.*

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