Tag: Fake news
Interview with Christopher Steele, former MI6 Russia chief – Culture
Interview by Georg Mascolo and Jörg Schmitt, Munich SZ: Mr. Steele, in the past you were not among those who underestimated Vladimir Putin – you have been warning for years.…
Deggendorf: visit to the Blattmacher competition – Bavaria
For him, says the policeman, the matter is clear. “This is fake news,” he says, tapping his finger on the table. Fictitious news, and that in tranquil Shmachnow? The moderator…
Fake news is part of the strategy of war – media
Of Andrian Kreye The lady tearfully told of a robbery at the Euskirchen train station in North Rhine-Westphalia. A group of Ukrainians beat up a Russian youth. He had died.…
War in Ukraine: More hostility towards Russians in Germany – Politics
Of Jan Heidtmann, Berlin Such clarity in times of ambiguity is rare: Last Sunday, a video was distributed tens of thousands of times via Telegram and other digital channels. In…
Walid Raad in the Kunsthalle Mainz: Invented facts about erkel – culture
Was the Lebanese secret service’s code name for Angela Merkel really “purple horn poppy”? And for Gerhard Schröder “pigeon weed”? Are there waterfalls in Lebanon that were named by the…
Listening to the Bamberg City Council? Not everyone wants that anymore. – Bavaria
Yes, it does concern you how you have to imagine Messrs Stefan Sandmann, Matthias Franken and Timo Hausdörfer. And whether you want it or not, the likeness of Ulrich Mühe…
Boris Reitschuster excluded from the federal press conference – media
Boris Reitschuster is no longer a member of the Federal Press Conference. This was announced on Thursday by the board of the association, in which around 900 full-time journalists come…
Social Media and the War in Ukraine – Culture
Twitter in particular seems particularly dystopian these days. Updates from the front are mixed up in the Ukraine with news from the world of sport or sloppy memes. If the…
Blogger “Mosul Eye” trains citizen journalists in Ukraine – Media
Omar Mohammed informed the world as “Mosul Eye” about the terror regime of IS. Now he’s helping citizen journalists in Ukraine document the truth — including for the post-conflict period.…
Psychology: The Einstein Effect
Why meaningless things seem believable when a scientist says so. .source site