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It should be alarming how pervasive these efforts have become, especially given Germany's history. There's a near-total lack of public awareness and media opposition on... a number of issues in Germany. Then again, there's probably a lot of Germans who love this.


It is not pervasive. The chart the report shows essentially is a random map of organizations in Germany who are involved in any way with public speech.

Like claiming the FBI is involved with censoring Americans because it is their job to seize certain illegal websites.


Exactly, there's a difference between spreading information that is factually incorrect and reporting (or not reporting) information in a way that is misleading.


So this is happening in the EU? I only heard about such cases happening in Russia. Where did you read about this?


It’s well documented, Latvia, Poland, and it takes time to build the case so there are probably more.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/may/04...

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/01/16/we-need-eyes-and-ear...


I have heard about this happening in Russia but not the other way around. Can you please elaborate?


As of October, Russian efforts via Telegram are associated with the seemingly-spontaneous swarms around places like The Hague.

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-cyberespionage-gig-...


It makes sense. In the Netherlands, young people (<18) have been recruited for all kinds of stuff by organized crime; bank account money muling as part of laundering operations, laying bombs, getting drugs / other smuggled stuff out of shipping containers in ports, that kind of thing. They target these because for them, a few hundred € is a huge sum, and the legal system is very forgiving to underage people, assuming they even get caught.


Although, considering that the EPA is and has always been something that I never really had a significant amount of contact with, I still end up with mixed thoughts about other topics unrelated to the EPA.


Seems like another disinformation misinformation


This reads like a propaganda piece, there's lots of bullet points and hardly any real information to support your bold claim. From the few examples you do show, they all look pretty standard. Not something that would have an impact... unless DeepSeek really was a great success and really did change the AI landscape... which it did.


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