Public TV in Germany yesterday (ARD, Channel One) picked up the briefing of Maassen on the Chemnitz video business, and it's caused a lot of 'heartburn'.
This presentation to the Interior Committee of the Bundestag covered a great deal of what is believed to be a significant disinformation effort.
He even relates efforts like this back to the G20 summit in Hamburg from last year.....where fake events were engineered to show alleged police violence.
What Maassen suggests is that ANTIFA might have led this misinformation effort with this one questionable video.
The other members of this Interior Committee? The SPD, Greens and Linke Party? They weren't that happy after the presentation and made pointed (negative comments). They wanted to believe the misinformation campaign is non-existent.
This is the first time ever that you see one major organization of the German government talking about misinformation on a massive scale and being pursued with various political groups.
I sat and looked over the efforts, and then went to the historical landscape of Germany for the past sixty years.
The 1968-hyped up year of demonstrations and violence in Germany? Was it also a misinformation effort?
The Red Army Faction in Germany? Was it also a misinformation vehicle?
The effort that brought down Willy Brandt as Chancellor? Was it also a misinformation effort?
This anti-Trump business for the past two years? Another misinformation effort?
You could open up a big can of worms here, if the public started asking questions and it became skeptical of social media, the news media, and outside influences.
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