By bankrolling organizations that ordinary Germans would never voluntarily support, the state has created an artificial network of antisemitic quasi-lobbyists.
Slovakia’s social-democratic Smer party is in pole position to win the elections this September and has unsettled its EU partners with its pro-Kremlin sympathies and drift to the right, courting parties on the extreme right.
Evidence suggests certain governments have operated fake far-right social media accounts, raising the prominence of ‘extremism’ in the public consciousness in ways that can justify limiting freedom of speech.
