German Disinfo Outlet Gets Federal Funding to Fight ‘Fake News’
A court recently ruled Correctiv was spreading false claims—exactly what the outlet is supposed to guard against with its AI-based ‘fact-checking’ project.
A court recently ruled Correctiv was spreading false claims—exactly what the outlet is supposed to guard against with its AI-based ‘fact-checking’ project.
Populists are understandably concerned such an organisation could be politicised to spy against them.
“The globalist Right and the ecological extremist Left have found a common enemy: European agriculture.”
The Munich Security Report paints a bleak picture of the future, dominated by geopolitical rivalry.
The united and determined centre Right can liberate Brussels.
For Nancy Faeser and friends, ‘defending democracy’ means massively funding organizations that push left-globalist propaganda narratives.
Hans-Georg Maaßen has accused the Federal Interior Minister of “misusing the Office for the Protection of the Constitution to combat political opponents”
The EU elites are not about to give up this year’s elections without a dirty fight.
For these MEPs, it’s only ‘democracy’ when they’re winning elections. Otherwise, democracy is ‘under attack.’
Critics agree that foreign funding should be banned, but say German Muslims should fund their own mosques.
Reactions to elections in Poland and Germany show how Europe’s elites twist ‘democracy’ to mean whatever suits their interests
Parts of the Austrian intelligence community are lining up against the FPÖ as the party hopes to return to power in 2024.
Accusations of antisemitism made against conservative party leader Hubert Aiwanger could be a case of personal vendetta.
Left-liberal leaders express concern the crime could be ‘exploited’ by the Right.
Morawiecki blasted Manfred Weber for subverting Polish democracy over recent EU rule of law debates.
FROM THE SUMMER 2023 PRINT EDITION: In Europe, populists were permanently marginalised—or so it was claimed by hostile observers. However, since pandemic policies ended, unresolved problems have returned to the forefront of political debate, giving a boost to right-wing populist parties everywhere.
“Anyone who incites hatred against parts of the population and attacks the human dignity of others by insulting, maliciously scorning, or slandering a group or part of the population is liable to be prosecuted,” Thuringia’s AfD chief Björn Höcke wrote on Twitter after filing the complaint.
Warsaw is putting its foot down. “We will not pay for the mistakes of European multicultural policy. We know how to distinguish solidarity from coercion and dangerous ideological projects,” Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki said.
Younger members feel that Green Party top brass have conceded on the immigration issue.
The directive is likely to come into effect before next year’s EU elections and facilitate decoupling from regimes such as China on human rights grounds.
Right-wing populists and socialist anti-war MEPs spoke out against the anti-disinformation report.
While the number of reported rapes in North Rhine-Westphalia—Germany’s most populous city—increased 25% in 2022 compared to the previous year, the number of rapes involving more than one perpetrator jumped by 43%.
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