[Catfish]

Originally Posted by Skybird

The EU just delivered another slap into the faces of European nation's citizens: [...]

Axel Springer media. And it is more about the Geneva convention taken seriously, than "Eu law".

And maybe wait a bit ... to see whether this is not fake news.

"... now it's about democracy. She is threatened. And the danger is more subtle than history teaches. Neither are revolutionaries on the street nor is the Bundeswehr planning a coup. Instead, a kind of digital powdery mildew lays down the ecosystem, where politics, media and citizens symbiotically appreciate, use, and live the country's democracy.

For example, less than a year ago, a supposed letter from the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of the Interior appeared in the net, addressed to the "police chief for Cologne and Leverkusen". The text ordered that the crimes of "refugees, asylum seekers and persons with a migrant background" be disguised. The document itself was distributed by members of parliament on Twitter. The indignation was great. It was a fake though. However, after the Home Office clarified this, many users responded by calling the clarification fake.

It's one of the thousands of cases in the last few months that has been buzzing with fake news. Often nobody knows who is behind it. There are cases that right-wing populists play in the cards (like this one), and there are cases that help radical leftists. The lie has become everyday. And it has long been a means of digital warfare. The Russian state is regularly exposed as the author of some of the biggest lies. Radical Palestinians, meanwhile, paint their children in red paint to photograph them as victims of the Israeli army. ..."

And so on. Polarisation.