The country’s Psychological Defence Agency chief told POLITICO that platforms like X, TikTok and Facebook need to do more to combat Russia’s lie machine.
Saying foreign powers are running disinformation campaigns does not mean that there is no other cause for discontent. The threat here is that Russia (as well as others not mentioned here because Politico is owned by Axel Springer) is turning people towards explicitly anti-democratic, authoritarian parties (in Germany, it’s BSW for the „far left“ (according to noone but themselves) and AFD for the far right. If you spend any amount of time looking into both parties, it becomes very obvious that they are puppets for rich authoritarian elites, including the Russian government.)
Saying foreign powers are running disinformation campaigns does not mean that there is no other cause for discontent. The threat here is that Russia (as well as others not mentioned here because Politico is owned by Axel Springer) is turning people towards explicitly anti-democratic, authoritarian parties (in Germany, it’s BSW for the „far left“ (according to noone but themselves) and AFD for the far right. If you spend any amount of time looking into both parties, it becomes very obvious that they are puppets for rich authoritarian elites, including the Russian government.)