4d ago

Russia allegedly invests billions in disinformation campaign to sway German elections

uawire.org Russia allegedly invests billions in disinformation campaign to sway German elections

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 German...

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Not just german elections. Also did to usa elections, here in orbanistan, slovakia, romania, etc...
- even Ukraine over the last 6 years, and georgia. and as i've watched things playeout after the last 20 years, i can say with confidence: no event is too small for russia to interfere. they desire total global dominance. they will do anything to achieve it. and the easiest way ho weaken everyone else is disinformation to make us all live in our own individual customized reality
- Mexican too, we even had RT ads in plain sight back when the Ukraine invasion was starting and the expresident constantly downplayed Putin's shit, we still are applying the outdated (most likely expired too) sputnik vaccine to the public.

For a bit of context, elon is supporting the far right AfD. And AfD is pro russian oil and anti nato. Nato which might have to intervene if a nato member is attacked by russia.
If there is any party russia is supporting, it has to be AfD, imo that would make the most sense.

Damn! I'm shocked! I would've never assumed

And I would bet some of that money is coming from Elon
- Laundering through Elon.

Im guessing its going to the AfD
- Im not just Güssing. Its quite suspicious that a lot of their politicians have ties to Russia.

No. Shit. They do in the US too. It worked twice now.
- And in Bulgaria(?) too. There they had to redo the elections because of this (if I remember correctly)

Classic Russian meddling.

While I have little doubt they are spending many millions on it, I sort of doubt it's billions of euros. They link a telegram source, which talks about German Intelligence. Not impossible, but not an easily verifiable source.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
It just seems rather unlikely they are spending that much on disinformation when the have a real and present war in front of them with huge hardware/personnel loss, and have a waning treasury.
- This is hybrid war. AfD and other Russian friendly parties winning means less or less reliable aid to Ukraine
- They want to spend 2 billion euros on disinformation so they don't have to spend 5 billion euros on their military.
  For example, if they spent 2 billion getting Trump elected and he cuts off US support for Ukraine, that 5 billion would be an absolute bargain for them.
- I hear you, but what does it really matter? An (or many) orders of magnitude more than any other country would spend, or even consider.
  They're doing it because it's working. They've got America on the ropes and didn't have to nuke anyone.
- Maybe they meant rubles.

Worked great in the US, Nazi space karen definitely helped get trump elected

"Allegedly."

Vladi, you want my vote? Give me some monry.

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