The CDU chairman makes a claim about the AfD’s social media activities in a discussion format – this has consequences.
CDU leader Friedrich Merz has issued a cease-and-desist declaration to the party because of a statement about the AfD. The CDU announced that it was a statement in a podcast. Merz would no longer claim – as happened there – that members of the Bundestag and other AfD MPs or officials handed over their passwords to the AfD party headquarters, so that the AfD federal office would be able to centrally control messages and play them out across all accounts.
The AfD denied this in an affidavit through its federal executive director, the CDU further announced. He explained that only members of the federal executive board received “support in managing their social media channels if they so wished,” without there being any central distribution of content.
Source: Stern
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