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TEHRAN, February 22 - German tabloid Bild has been forced to retract a report about Russian interference in German politics. The ‘bombshell’ was invented by a satirical magazine to expose Bild’s lax editorial standards and have some fun in the process.
TEHRAN,Young Journalists Club (YJC) -German tabloid Bild has been forced to retract a report about Russian interference in German politics. The ‘bombshell’ was invented by a satirical magazine to expose Bild’s lax editorial standards and have some fun in the process.
There were no rumors of the Russian meddling and we thought – 'this cannot be' – we have to make an alliance with the Bild tabloid and push a story of the Russian meddling. And as we see now, it works perfectly,” Moritz Hürtgen, editor of Titanic, told RT.
Applying all their creativity, they forged a chain of fake emails resembling an exchange between Kevin Kuehnert, head of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) youth wing Jusos (and a prominent critic of the new coalition government with Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc), and a shadowy Russian bot master by the name of “Juri.” The fake material was then fed to Bild.
“What we did was we came up with a story that was tacky and like in a spy movie. And we had a good feeling that this would work especially with Bild as they already ran a campaign against the SPD, the Social Democratic Party which Kevin Kuhnert is a part of,”Hürtgen recalled. “Our intent was to spin this story more further.”
Bild apparently thought that they finally got some hard proof of Russian meddling in the German elections, something which no newspaper, nor any of the Western intelligence agencies, have so far been able to uncover. Without double-checking the sources, Bild jumped on the honey-trap material, publishing the “New smear campaign inside the SPD” article last Friday.
Source:RT
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