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During the first primary European vote since the re -election of President Trump, influence campaigns are directed to Germany on two sides.
By Katrin Bennhold and Steven Lee Myers
Last week, Stephan Protschka, deputy of the excessive election of Germany, went to Facebook and telegram for a percentage of a sensationalist article. The Green Party of the country, he said, conspired to the Ukrainian government to recruit migrants to organize terrorist attacks and blame his party.
As expected, Mr. Protttschka’s followers. “People wake up,” one of them replied on Facebook. “It’s a criminal. “
The article, in fact, the component of a Russian misinformation torrent that flooded the greatest economic and diplomatic force in Europe before its federal elections on February 23.
As a vote, Russian influence campaigns have proposed wild statements in sexual, monetary and thin scandals that involve German politicians, betting on social and political tensions that have divided the country, according to researchers than the misinformation and foreign influence operations.
The statements gave the impression in the false media and in the videos that have been changed through synthetic intelligence. They were divided through an army of bottling accounts into social media platforms such as X, Facebook, Telegram and, in a new development, Bluesky.
The objective, according to researchers and the national intelligence firm of Germany, is to undermine confidence in classic parties and the media and excessive right of Germany, led the election of ‘Germany, known as AFD.
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