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> Why do you find this story scary? For several reasons. Over these past years the rise of the AfD, the alt-right in general, has been heavily credited to Rus
by freeflight 7y ago
> Why do you find this story scary?
For several reasons.
Over these past years the rise of the AfD, the alt-right in general, has been heavily credited to Russian interference.
But to this day there's no actual solid evidence for anything like that, and these accusations of "You are just a Russian bot!" have been a major factor for driving protest voters to the AfD.
When in reality it seems to have been a US American PR firm facilitating most of it, one that has managed to make political attack ads an actual thing in Germany. While I was wondering why and how the political discourse suddenly became so unbelievably hostile in Germany.
But all the German mainstream gets to read and hear about is the Russians attacking "democratic institutions in Germany" [0] and supposedly propping up the alt-right, which keeps on driving voters to the AfD for feeling marginalized with their "Russian opinions".
[0] https://www.dw.com/en/hackers-target-democratic-institutions-in-europe-says-microsoft/a-47595003 https://www.dw.com/en/hackers-target-democratic-institutions...