An agency linked to Russian power has been running a disinformation campaign in Germany aimed at intimidating German voters and to support the far-right party "Alternative for Germany", reported AFP, citing several German media.
The agency, known as the "Social Digital Agency", has been spreading false information 24 hours a day on social media for at least two years in close cooperation with the Kremlin, according to German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung. and the German public television and radio channels GDR and GDR. With the help of other international partners, these media have examined internal Agency presentations, tables, lists, graphs and written documents provided by an anonymous source. The purpose of this Agency, which spreads pro-Russian comments, memes and cartoons on "Facebook", "X", "Telegram" and "Instagram" was discrediting the center-left coalition of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
According to a leaked document from this Agency, dating from late 2022, one of the stated targets was also the far-right party "Alternative for Germany" achieve a score of 20% in a survey published by an institute considered reliable, whose results are published throughout Europe.