Love him or hate him, there’s no denying the Elon Musk is one of the world’s biggest advocates for free speech.
And high ranking officials are taking notice by nominating Musk for one of the world’s top prizes: The Nobel Peace Prize.
According to The Hill, a European Parliament member from Slovenia says he nominated Musk for a Nobel Peace Prize for his free speech advocacy.
“The proposal that Mr. Elon Musk, for his consistent support for the fundamental human right of freedom of speech and thus for peace, receives the Nobel Peace Prize 2025, was successfully submitted today,” Branko Grims wrote in a Thursday post on social platform X.
The proposal that Mr. Elon Musk, for his consistent support for the fundamental human right of freedom of speech and thus for peace, receives the Nobel Peace Prize 2025, was successfully submitted today. Sincere thanks to all the co-proposers and everyone who helped with this… pic.twitter.com/QdI4fnbzdU
— Branko Grims (@BrankoGrimsX1) January 29, 2025
Alongside his statement Thursday, Grims shared an email from the Norwegian Nobel Institute showing the nomination was successfully submitted.
Grims in December argued Musk deserved a Nobel Peace Prize for advancing “free speech.”
“I propose that Elon Musk receives the Nobel Peace Prize for the next year because he did much more for the freedom of speech, which is a basic human right, much more than anybody else in the third millennium,” the European Parliament member told Brussels Signal News.
He added that Musk’s takeover of Twitter, which he rebranded as X, was “the best of what [could have] happened for Western civilization in the last few years.”
This is not Musk’s first nomination for the prize.
The Tesla CEO was nominated for the prize last year by Norwegian libertarian member of Parliament Marius Nilsen.
Nilsen at the time said Musk has provided an “adamant defense of dialogue, free speech and [enabling] the possibility to express one’s views’ in a continuously more polarized world,” in a statement to Agderposten newspaper.