Disinformation update: false allegations about Friedrich Merz and another Zelensky "purchase"

Storm-1516

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Fake allegations about Friedrich Merz mental health

Campaign was launched on February 3 and is distributed as as video, which includes a compilation of typical Storm-1516 patterns: fake testimony and fake documents wrapped into “investigation”-style video package. Person in the video appears to be very similar to the person from one of the prior campaigns, which was also targeting Germany.

Full video of “testimony” was initially posted in w-a-munchen[.]de website, which belongs to the fake media network recently covered by our team, and later spread on 10 other websites of the same network:

novanachrichten[.]de

unmittelbar-medien[.]de

nudis-verbis[.]de

herrpostillon[.]de

rundumdieuhr-24[.]de

mehrstimmen[.]de

tagesnews-24[.]de

onlinedaheim-24[.]de

newsmacher[.]de

polemisch-infomedia[.]de

(FAKE) Zelensky bought "Eagle's Nest"

Story is distributed in a form of video “investigation”.

Video was also posted on aktuell-nachricht.de.

Fake media network is on full steam

Charts depicting amount of AI rewritten articles produced on websites and per-hosting

Even after losing third of websites in the German fake media network after they were taken down by Hostinger, pace of the generated articles doesn’t seem to slow down .

More coverage for older story

Our team discovered that Gemäldegalerie story was also later posted on several other websites belonging to the same fake media network:

de-nachrichtenseite[.]de

kernrecht[.]de

ins-gesicht[.]de

laut-medien[.]de

expert-infomedien[.]de

sag-das[.]de

vollverstand[.]de

dasneueste-online[.]de

allethemen24[.]de