La Russia presumibilmente investe miliardi nella campagna di disinformazione per influenzare le elezioni tedesche
https://uawire.org/russia-allegedly-invests-billions-in-disinformation-campaign-to-sway-german-elections
di Wagamaga
La Russia presumibilmente investe miliardi nella campagna di disinformazione per influenzare le elezioni tedesche
https://uawire.org/russia-allegedly-invests-billions-in-disinformation-campaign-to-sway-german-elections
di Wagamaga
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Russian authorities have funneled significant funds into creating a network of hundreds of thousands of fake social media accounts, forging news sites, and disseminating false information.
The Putin regime allocates up to two billion euros annually for large-scale disinformation operations in Germany, aiming to influence the outcomes of the upcoming German Bundestag elections, set to occur next month, reports Bild, citing reports from German intelligence agencies.
These Russian-backed funds are reportedly used to establish a web of fake social media accounts, forge news sites, and spread false information.
The objective behind these actions is to undermine genuine German politicians while bolstering pro-Kremlin forces, the report notes.
Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has already detected attempts to hack websites and servers containing voter data, as outlined in an agency report.
“Russia is utilizing the full spectrum of available means: from deliberate interference in political debates to cyberattacks on critical infrastructure and incitement,” commented former head of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Thomas Haldenwang.
Analysts have found hundreds of manipulative social media posts aimed at undermining support for Ukraine and promoting far-right groups in Germany.
So is the US. What a coincidence!
It’s sad to see how impotent and incapable German authorities are in pushing back against this sort of meddling.
grass is green
I hope the German people will not fall for this. The meddling coming from Russia and the US is so obscenely blatant.
But this is 2025. You have to be ready for anything…
Watched the Zuckerberg video, and I now know that asking social media platforms to moderate means less 🦅FREEDOM OF SPEECH🦅, which is significantly worse than having Russia influencing your elections and the last thing we should want.
So once again, I’m waiting until the EU’s latest strong-worded press release will have its effect over the whole situation: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20250116IPR26330/meps-condemn-russia-s-use-of-disinformation-to-justify-its-war-in-ukraine
What?? No way!
So you’re saying Russia and America are working together?
We need a European alternative for social media platforms, a place where we can block these hostile attacks from foreign nation’s, and can protect user data in accordance with EU legislation. They are deliberately trying to divide us, as they fear a strong unified EU!!! Friendly nations don’t interfere in elections of other countries!!
Russia?!? Disinformation in Europe?!?
Well I never…
It’s time for Germany and Europe to move beyond strongly worded statements for Russia, or you’ll live with the consequences of Russia aggression.
UK, Romania, Germany, Moldavia, Slovakia and who knows what other countries. So many countries where Russia pumps their cheese and the problem is that in some cases they do succeed
It’s crazy that we just accept the fact that wealthy foreign individuals or adversary nations can just manipulate our public discourse. We need secure European alternatives to US social media platforms and we need an EU cyber force that specialises in uncovering such manipulative activities and stops them.
The internet should have an autocorrect feature that detects when the word ‘allegedly’ appears alongside ‘Russia’ or ‘Putin’ and removes it.
Not only Russia, Elon is doing a great job as well
Russia and the US, united in proping up Nazis in Germany
In which direction?
AdF too?
How are both the US and Russia so interested in having far-right in the EU?
Question to supporters of the Russian government’s actions if any are reading this: Do you not agree that all those billions would be better invested in improving the lives of Russian citizens, rather than making the lives of people in other countries worse? What makes you still support Putin and his actions when they’re using the people’s money this way?
Worked for Brexit 🤷♂️
Bloody hell, Ruzzia could have spent the money on roads, hospitals, schools and modernising their water and sewerage.
But no, they spend billions invading and destabilising neighbours, performing poisonings on foreign soil and telling everyone on their state TV how bad it is in the West.
Russia is a terrorist state.
We should just consider this an act of war at this point.
Huge accumulation of wealth in the hand of a few led both the USA and Russia down the same path of oligarchy and far right delusion.
The sad irony is that one of them used to boost the counter movements to this rabid capitalism we see today, despite all its flaws.
It worked in America I don’t see why it wouldn’t work in Germany.
Where do the Russians pull out billions for this, billions for that, on top of their war spending?
Must say, can’t we just completely close European internet connections with Russia? Ban Russian IPs, disconnect internet cables, prohibit European companies from offering services to Russian IPs or VPN providers who still operate in Russia. Yes some will still get through but it will complicate a lot of stuff (and also fuck the Russian economy more, which is always nice as long as they are still in Ukraine).
Democracy has been completely compromised by Big Tech’s facilitation of political ads.
Divide and conquer
Can we please, for the love of Europe, implement some anti propaganda laws? And I don’t care if you call it censorship. You spit russian bullshit, you get censored. Simple.
ah yes. 2025 where being woke is a bad thing and everybody is supposed to sleep through the warning signs of our downfall.
Why can’t we cut all internet to Russia? I mean the physical cables – “just” remove a mile or so of all in- and outgoing fiber cable so they completely isolated
Ahahaha… Fucking propaganda wars…
In other news, Water is wet.
How do you think Brexit happened.
Putin gets his way because Europe is not united.
I’m pretty certain that only 5% if even that of AfD voters are actually far right or Nazis and the rest are just middle class people who are just inherently uninterested in politics and get 100% of their political exposure from memes their friends and family share on Facebook.
Memes which originate on a Russian bot account and whose sole purpose and content is just misinformation about a conventional party.
I’ve been seeing those “memes” for years and they’ve always been so blatantly obvious ploys it just angers me people are falling for it in droves.
Go look at any YouTube video about immigration in Germany. There will always be somebody with russian name or russian playlist propagating support for AfD.
Ordinary russians are starving and this dipshit invests millions in this just to show everyone he is taugh guy. I just can’t wrap my head around it.
Imagine seeing a train derailing in slow-motion. That’s how German politics feels like right now.
Surely they wouldn’t launch a disinformation campaign in the US to sway elections.
Really? You would expect Trump and Elon would be gentlemen and split the bill their buddy, but no.
Billions of rubles (around 50 bucks) or billions of euros? Makes a difference.
Anyways, neither the AfD or BSW will become part of the new government under any circumstances, so you’re wasting lots of money to discredit the Ampel just to make Merz, a pro-Ukraine and NATO hawk, the new chancellor. Well done
This also happened in Romania. Thousands of fake social media pages and groups, which also change their title depending on the social context, are spreading russian propaganda. At first they are full of bots who like and comment, then they reach real people. Even if the common man doesn’t necessarily agree with most of the opinions of the respective account pages, there are a few that stand out and resonate with most people. Of course, only the problems themselves are presented, no real or achievable solutions are ever provided. People see in the comments hundreds/thousands of bots praising the respective post, they also agree with 1 out of 10 themes presented there and slowly they start to fall into the propaganda trap, social media algorithms start sending them even more posts like this and eventually they end up making Russian propaganda themself without realizing it. And from this point, it’s very hard to convince them that they’s been duped.