There have been warnings about disinformation campaigns from Russia for a long time. Now, according to a media report, the Foreign Office has uncovered a Russian campaign that wanted to increase dissatisfaction against the traffic light government on the X platform.
Russia is said to have tried to stir up discontent against the traffic light government with a massive disinformation campaign on the online platform X (formerly Twitter). According to a report published by the magazine on Friday “Mirror” The Federal Foreign Office uncovered an operation for which more than 50,000 fake user accounts had apparently been set up. The campaign is also said to have aimed to undermine support for Ukraine in Germany.
According to the report, experts commissioned by the Department of Strategic Communications in the Federal Foreign Office analyzed the short message service
“Disinformation has become a global threat”
During this period, the experts identified more than 50,000 fake user accounts that sent a total of more than a million German-language tweets. The accusation often appeared in the tweets that the federal government was neglecting its own population in order to support Ukraine, reports “Mirror” with reference to a confidential analysis.
The analysts therefore attribute the current wave of attacks to the so-called doppelganger campaign. Fake accounts on X link to websites that imitate well-known news media in order to give the content credibility. X owner Elon Musk announced when he took over the company that he would take decisive action against this problem.
After X protection mechanisms against hateful and misleading content “systematically dismantled” the increase in such content could “can only be viewed as an expected, logical consequence”says Lea Frühwirth from the Center for Monitoring, Analysis and Strategy “Mirror”.
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According to the report, the Foreign Office is monitoring “for quite some time” Debates on foreign policy issues on social media with several data analysts. The aim is to uncover attempts by foreign actors to exert influence.
“Disinformation has become a global threat”a spokesman for the Foreign Office told the magazine. “It is deliberately used by those who do not share our values to destabilize entire societies – not just in Western democracies, but everywhere.”
Source: Stern
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