{"id":26462,"date":"2025-01-23T14:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T12:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=26462"},"modified":"2025-01-23T14:44:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T12:44:49","slug":"how-ru-propaganda-attempts-to-influence-german-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/europe\/how-ru-propaganda-attempts-to-influence-german-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"How ru-propaganda attempts to influence German elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kremlin has intensified its disinformation campaigns in Germany, primarily aiming to influence the early parliamentary elections scheduled for February 23.<\/p>\n<p>\u25aa\ufe0f Content aligned with Russian propaganda is proliferating on social media (most actively on X and TikTok) and blogger platforms based in Russia. The content is written in German for a German audience.<\/p>\n<p>The narratives being pushed include claims that &#8220;support for Ukraine is destroying the German economy&#8221; and &#8220;bringing the war to Germany.&#8221; Politicians in Germany who advocate for Ukraine or endorse stricter sanctions are discredited; their statements are misrepresented, and fear-based propaganda is disseminated. Russia also leverages its diplomatic missions, cultural, and educational initiatives in Germany to spread its propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>According to German analytical reports, Russia is spending approximately 2 billion euros annually on disinformation campaigns. Concurrently, the German Federal Office for Information Security has noted attempts to hack websites and servers that hold voter data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kremlin has intensified its disinformation campaigns in Germany, primarily aiming to influence the early parliamentary elections scheduled for February 23. \u25aa\ufe0f Content aligned with Russian propaganda is proliferating on social media (most actively on X and TikTok) and blogger platforms based in Russia. The content is written in German for a German audience. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":932,"footnotes":""},"categories":[932],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}