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The German Foreign Ministry revealed the Russian disinformation campaign on the social network X
DW: According to the German weekly Der Spiegel, the German Foreign Ministry has uncovered a Russian disinformation campaign on Elon Musk's social network X (formerly Twitter). The goal of this campaign, apparently, is to increase dissatisfaction with the current coalition government of Germany in society and disrupt further support for Ukraine, the publication writes on Friday, January 26, citing an internal report from the Foreign Ministry.
50 thousand fake accounts in X
As noted further, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ordered experts to analyze messages in X using a special program, and as a result, a large-scale network of fake accounts distributing German-language content was identified.
Between December 20 and January 20, more than 50,000 such accounts posted a total of more than a million tweets in German, often accusing the federal government of allegedly neglecting its own population to support Ukraine, Der Spiegel notes, citing a secret report. The publication indicates that this is a “systematic Russian campaign” of disinformation.
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