Published: October 1st, 2024,
Last updated: October 1st, 2024

Annalena Baerbock has called on the new EU Commission to take stronger action against disinformation on social networks. „If you have algorithms that deliberately spread not only fake news, but also hatred and agitation, (…) then that is a disruption of our democratic reality,“ said the Federal Foreign Minister at a Green Party conference in Berlin on Monday. As an example, she cited recruitment videos of Islamist terrorists, which young people see in their feeds as soon as they click on such a video.