Denkfabrik reveals the network for the spread of disinformation to the election
From the series “dirty tricks about the choice”: the upcoming Bundestag election is according to a think tank The aim of a network mainly in the online service X has become for the spread of disinformation. In order to “shake the trust in German elections” spread around 50 user accounts with artificial intelligence (AI) generated content or outstanding as accounts of well -known media houses such as the BBC and the German waveas the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) explained on Thursday
The disinformation was therefore particularly directed against the Union Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz. According to the institute, the content is, among other things, claims that the security of German elections is threatened and political candidates are targeted. Germany is shown as a country that “its citizens cannot protect and cannot organize safe elections”.
The content was spread in different languages, including English, Spanish and Arabic – but not in German.
The ISD continued to write that this was a sign that the widening of the disinformation was presumably about it, To mislead fact-checker and international observer – and not directly to influence German voters.
In addition, in the articles Refugees from Ukraine or the support for the country attacked by Russia discredited.
The procedure is “in accordance with the strategies for information manipulation that the Kremlin has used in the recent European elections,” says the report by ISD, which is available to the AFP news agency.
As the thought factory continued, the manipulated content was spread through a network of more than 6,000 bots to increase their reach.
Source: Stern
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