Has the Kremlin helped to make Donald Trump the US president? Does Moscow decide before the Bundestag election on German politics - about social media and cyberattacks? The overview of allegations and facts.
Has the Kremlin helped to make Donald Trump the US president? Does Moscow decide before the Bundestag election on German politics - about social media and cyberattacks? The overview of allegations and facts.
The case of Lisa has set in motion: Many Russian Germans brought last January against the refugee policy of the federal government, the Russian leadership used it for violent attacks against Berlin - and Chancellor Angela Merkel was pointed out, which power the lie during these times over the Internet can develop. And that Moscow might be able to take advantage of these new opportunities.
The alleged rape of the then 13-year-old Russian girl Lisa by a refugee finally turned out to be invented. But it is not easy to expose a lie in these times as such. If it has first set itself in forums, posts and profiles.
After all, the case of Lisa led to Merkel and her government having identified a new phenomenon. At the beginning of 2017, experts from the intelligence services will present what can be done against the forms of modern propaganda. And, above all, what reaction possibilities are there, if one uses information, which were first captured by hacker attacks.
In the US, intelligence is making the rounds, which led Russian hackers to have joined the presidential elections to help Donald Trump enter the White House. Now, many of them are concerned about the activities of Moscow, which are controlled by Moscow. The problem: the evidence is extremely thin.
The most important questions and answers at a glance:
1. What role should Russian hackers have played in the US election campaign?
According to reports by the Washington Post and the New York Times, the US foreign secret service CIA has learned about Russia's attempts to hurt the Republican candidate Trump by means of hacker attacks in the recent presidential elections. President Barack Obama has instructed US intelligence agencies and other security agencies to investigate the allegations.
In the campaign, emails had been hacked by Hillary Clinton's Democratic Party, with information from the WikiLeaks unveiling platform. The Democrats promptly accused Russia, and the CIA is now coming to the conclusion that a Russian hacking team was behind the attack - and thus offered electoral assistance to Trump.
However, evidence for this assessment is not yet known, Trump and his team reject the CIA assessment.
2. What are the fears with regard to the Bundestag election?
The local security authorities expressly warn against Russian attempts to influence the Bundestag elections in the coming year. According to Hans-Georg Maaßen, President of the German Constitution, President Hans-Georg Maaßen said that this would be "condensed". "Information that flows out of cyberattacks could appear in the election campaign to discredit German politicians." BND chief Bruno Kahl warns against cyberattacks, "which have no other meaning than to create political uncertainty".
Even German politicians are concerned, Angela Merkel himself publicly warned that cyber attacks and "hybrid clashes", led by Russia, had long been part of everyday life and could also play a part in the election campaign. In the Bundestag the Chancellor made the consequences of news manipulation on the Internet, especially in social networks, on the topic - without explicitly accusing Russia.
Remarkable: Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov rejected all allegations last week, proving how Russian disinformation works. Lavrov claimed that Merkel had publicly described the accusations as "nonsense and nonsense." When and where Merkel said this, Lavrov did not reveal. A spokeswoman Merkels said on Monday only that the Chancellor "has no intention to comment on such a statement".
3. What suspected Russian attacks have already existed in Germany?
The Lisa case was an example of a regular disinformation campaign. The persistent dissemination through social media and the instrumentalization by state Russian media went hand in hand.
In the spring of 2015, the Bundestag became the target of a large cyberattack. The tracks are to lead to Russian hacking groups with contacts to secret services. Large amounts of data were collected during the attack. According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, the recently published documents from the WikiLeaks from the NSA investigation committee could stem from this hack.
Also in the recent attack on rout of the Telekom was speculated over a Russian origin, but concrete accusations were not
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