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Russia's disinformation campaign in Germany

2024-01-28 19:18:00, Kosova & Bota CNA
Russia's disinformation campaign in Germany
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The German Foreign Ministry has discovered a large Russian disinformation campaign on the Internet, on the platform X, formerly Twitter. The purpose of the campaign was to increase dissatisfaction with the work of the government in Berlin and to undermine support for Ukraine, reports "Spiegel".

On behalf of the German Foreign Ministry, experts have analyzed the short message service X with a special software and found a large network of fake user profiles that distributed content in the German language.

Russia's disinformation campaign in Germany
Foreign Ministry in Berlin

In the time span from December 20 to January 20, experts have identified more than 50,000 fake accounts on the X platform, which have published more than 1 million tweets in the German language.

The focus is on support for Ukraine

In the messages, the accusation is often raised that the German government ignores its people to support Ukraine, "Spiegel" reported, referring to reliable sources from the analysis. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been following the debates on social media on foreign policy topics for a long time through IT analysts. The goal is to detect influence from outside. "Disinformation has become a global threatening factor," a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry told "Spiegel." "It is used on purpose by those who do not share our values ??to destabilize societies as a whole, not just Western democracies, but as a whole."/ DW





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