Germany is bracing for digital threats in the run-up to the general election.

With the country expected to elect a new parliament on February 23, authorities and researchers are raising concerns about the potential impact of hack-and-leak o…

America’s adversaries did not significantly affect the results of the 2024 U.S. elections — but not for lack of trying. Russia, Iran, and China waged aggressive influence operations targeting America’s political system, but America proved r…

BERLIN, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Fact-checking firm Newsguard and German investigative outlet Correctiv said on Thursday they had identified a cluster of Russia-linked websites that were spreading false stories in an apparent bid to sway Germany'…

Fact-checking firm NewsGuard and investigative website Correctiv said Thursday they have identified a group of Russian-linked websites spreading false information to influence the German parliamentary elections scheduled for February.

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Mehrere Tiktok-Videos mit teils millionenfachen Aufrufen zeigen große Demonstrationen, bei denen „Ost, Ost, Ostdeutschland"-Rufe zu hören sind. Die Profile, die sie verbreiten, heißen „Alice Weidel Fan" oder „AfD John". In den Kommentaren s…

With the countdown to the German federal election on February 27, 2025, the political atmosphere is buzzing with both anticipation and tension. Social media platforms are rife with disinformation about candidates and political parties, prom…

This article is part of our special report The dark side of AI innovation is supercharging disinformation and damaging democracy.

A Russian influence operation known as "Storm-1516" has set up over 100 websites using artificial intelligence…

BERLIN --- Russian bots have driven a dramatic surge of disinformation on the social media platform X days before Germany's election, according to a government report seen by POLITICO.

At the center of the effort to influence German voters …

Ahead of Germany's federal elections, fake news and AI-generated propaganda is multiplying online.

As German federal elections draw closer, TikTok videos allegedly showing hundreds of thousands of people marching for the far-right Alternati…

Two weeks before the federal election in Germany, the spread of fake news and misinformation, often masterminded by Russia, has intensified, including through the so-called "alternative" media.

That's according to a government report seen b…

Days ahead of federal elections in Germany, a report suggested that Russian bots have driven a dramatic surge of disinformation on various social media platforms, especially X, formerly known as Twitter. According to a report of the German …

Just two weeks until the federal election in Germany, platforms said they have measures in place to counter disinformation.

Last week, with barely a fortnight to go until the German federal election on 23 February, manipulated TikTok videos…

Last week, Stephan Protschka, a member of Parliament for the far-right party Alternative for Germany, took to Facebook and Telegram to share a sensationalist article. The country's Green Party, it claimed, was conspiring with the Ukrainian …

On the 16th of December 2024, the German Bundestag voted a motion of no confidence against German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Earlier, he had submitted a request for a vote of confidence in the government to Parliament.

Scholz received the supp…

A wave of fake news has targeted German politics and they almost always have the same goal: to create uncertainty, even chaos, in an attempt to strengthen the extreme wings. There is a week to go until the elections and the vote in Germany …

BERLIN --- The German Interior Ministry has identified a Russia-linked disinformation campaign spreading fake claims of election fraud in Germany just days before Sunday's vote.

Fabricated videos circulating on social media falsely suggest …