Stephan ProtSchka, an alternative to Germany last week, received an alternative alternative Facebook and Telegram to share a sensational article. The Green Party of the country, this assassination of the Ukrainian government to hire migrants to report on terrorist attacks and blame the party.
As presented, the post post was angered by Mr. Protschka's followers. “People wake up, one of them answered on Facebook. “This is a crime.”
The article was part of the torrent of Russian disinformation, which was flooded in Europe's largest economic and diplomatic power in Europe before the federal election in February 23.
According to the audible approaches, the Russian impact campaigns, disinformation and foreign impact operations, the recipient propagated the wild claims of sexual, financial and criminal scandals playing in social and political tensions.
Allegations appeared in videos modified by fake news and artificial intelligence. They are spread by the army of bot accounts on social media platforms such as X, Facebook, Telegram and a new development, Bluesky.
According to researchers and the internal intelligence agency of Germany, it is to violate the right to the main parties and the media and the media and the best rights of Germany led by an alternative known as the AFD.
The richest man in the world focused on the same goal, Elon Musk. The social support of the alternative to Germany in the X, which has a social media network, adapted to Russia's strategic purpose for Russia's support for Western democracy and Ukraine.
“Now we are doing a double front,” he said. Sasha Havlice, Sasha Havlice of the Executive Director of the Institute of Strategic Dialogue of the Non-Trade Research Organization released on Thursday a report About the Russian Disinformation campaign in X X.
“Among the hidden operations of the casculus open and the cemetery,” said, “It is clear from the content of mutual strength.”
The targeting of Germany
Germany's choice has become the last battlefield in Russian impact campaigns. Kremlin, Chancellor Olaf Scholz's left coalition from the center collapsed last year, after a three-year war of the Russian occupiers can be supported in Europe after a three-year war.
Mr. Musk, in turn, has done little to reduce Russian bots that promote AFD on the platform. Instead, 217 million strong audiences in X. were the last hope of the country in the country.
In January, Mr. Musk met with the leading candidate of the partyAlice Weidel, for 75 minutes X, gave the same platform Donald J. Trump During the run in the office last August. To apply to the party's conference With video connection Last month, this was supported by the Trump management.
Russia's propagandists welcomed the approach and wanted to exploit him. Mr. MUSK's messages in the X, according to an organization that follows Germany's online extremity, is widespread by a Russian effect operation known as Doppelgänger. X did not answer a question about Russian activities.
A fake news Maveni
It is located in Germany, Russia, France, Moldova, Georgia, the United States and the United States, the United States and other countries, the Institute of Strategic Dialogue, Cemas and Future and Treater Intelligence, Massachusetts.
A key player Past Sheriff's MP John Mark Dugan, a political shelter in Moscow, Florida in Moscow. Has built before Network of more than 160 fake news sites The United States, in Britain and France, which is pushing the Kremlin propaganda, now focused on Germany.
On November 12, nine days after the Snap election, Mr. Dougan, therefore, began to celebrate dozens of counterfeit German news sites in Dougan a report In Germany, non-profit news, a company that follows online disinformation and corrected by Newsguard.
Up to February, reached 102 – some masquerade as national news as local media in Berlin, Hamburg and other cities.
One of the sites on January 30, Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck was a video that assasses Ukraine to steal 50 drawings from the Berlin Art Gallery. The leader of the Christian Democratic Union, the leader of the Christian Democratic Union, and the next chancellor, the 20-year-old murder was “interested.”
“The network shows its agility,” said Clément Briens, an analytic with the registered future a report He explains the Russian disinformation in Germany in detail Thursday.
Mr Dougan, who reached Moscow, refused to answer questions about the role, but criticized the existing German government as a doll in the United States. “All leaders need to be replaced,” he said.
'Depth of regular people'
Not all fake videos are outstanding politicians. Another tactic that wins Momentum changes videos that provide regular people.
In January, Natalie Finch, a mental health nurse, Made a presentation video at Instagram For college in the UK, University of Bradford. Two weeks later, the video was re-appeared in Bluesky, except for this time, but the nurse, but the German Christian Democratic Union did not talk about the mental health of candidates.
The new version was fake using an artificial intelligence to read a different scenario on the same video with the university logo using an artificial intelligence tool for re-read his voice. “I started using the video, I started to introduce the university, I must not be very undoubtedly, there was a video about the German government,” he said.
Fake Clemson University was one of the few people defined by the Media Medical Environment Hub. Others are included in a fictitious video of the English police, who claimed that several US universities were warned by the presidents and terrorist attacks in Germany.
“These are some clear examples used for the disinformation used for the disinformation I see,” he said. “And those who have to make them are the depths of some of them only.”
What the influence of Russia's campaign remains unclear. Researchers say efforts have not changed their voter choices so far, but most disinformational volume of disinformation, of course, has openly made public access to the public, to complicate existing social complaints.
“The Russians studied the newspapers with very strong, media, television in the target countries,” Brian Ladon said it is an analyst in the future. “Probably more about a country's policy than who knows its policy in many cases.”
The german's internal intelligence agency said the amount of disinformation and the sophistication exceeded everything he had seen before.
“The threat of disinformation campaigns is that the voting decision will affect voters,” the office for the protection of the Constitution has repeatedly announced. “The election is to be delegitized and there is a risk of doubting the people.”
The campaign has signs of strengthening. Last month, 48 scores on Russia last month, 2.5 million views, the Institute of Strategic Dialogue Research was found. Number of marks in January – Likes or Shares – Triple.
Russian efforts, prominent politicians or those who influenced Germany, like Mr. Protschka, and share the false claims that call the “disinformation washing” of researchers.
Mr. Musk, who is currently playing a foreign role in the Trump management, can be the biggest impact. He called the Chancellor “stupid” and Germany's “undemocratic oppressor.” Germany, O write In December, “teeting on dependence of economic and cultural collapse” in an opinion for a large newspaper.
Mr. Musk also strengthened alternative supporters to Germany by sharing their posts in X. Many, like Naomi Seibt, a 24-year-old vaccine and climate change skeptical, send content to English now to attract attention.
Mr. MUSK also strengthened Russian propaganda. In October 2023 he shared A memorial company created as part of the impact campaign managed by the Social Design Agency, which is an internet company in Moscow in Moscow. From Cemas, the social design agency considers the internal company documents, the Russians and their material are victory when sharing their material by public figures.
“This is the first German election that the Kremlin and the United States is a strong person affecting the process and support the right side,” said Jemas in Julia Smirnova.
“Musk figures like Russian propaganda rookies,” Ms. Smirnova, “as a result, they normally make them normal, and the inauthentic accounts are more damage.”