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# Incident I00039: MerkelFacebook
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* **Summary:** Top stories about Merkel in both German and English were negative and misleading, most published from fake news sites.
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* **incident type**: incident
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* **Year started:** 2017
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* **Countries:** unknown , Germany
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* **Found via:** OII
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* **Date added:** 2019-02-24
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Actor:
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* Right-wing FB pages
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* Fake news sites e.g. yesimright.com; shoebat.com; endingthefed.com; truthfeed.com; yournewswire.com.
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* British tabloids: Express, MailOnline.
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Timeframe: Data was collected and analyzed in 2016.
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Date: 2016.
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Presumed goals:
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* To attack Merkel’s liberal position on the refugee crisis.
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Method:
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* Fake news sites mix legitimate partisan political content with false and conspiratorial information.
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* Large right-wing FB pages in the US also share anti-Merkel content.
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* Most popular Merkel articles on Facebook also come from legitimate, but negative and right-wing news sources.
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* German links that generated most engagement in 2016 spread conspiratorial claims about Merkel’s mental health.
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Counters:
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* No counter actions were taken.
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Related incidents:
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* Defamation of Modamani – a Syrian refugee - who took a selfie with Merkel and was accused on social media as having links to terrorism.
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References:
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* Source: Buzzfeed analysis
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* https://www.buzzfeed.com/albertonardelli/hyperpartisan-sites-and-facebook-pages-are-publishing-false
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* https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/06/business/syria-refugee-anas-modamani-germany-facebook.html
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