FILE PHOTO: An election campaign poster depicting Olaf Scholz, the top candidate of Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) for the upcoming 2025 general election, is pictured in Berlin, Germany January 17, 2025. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse/File Photo
BERLIN (Reuters) - A Russian disinformation campaign is seeking to boost the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), undermine mainstream German parties and sow worries about the economy ahead of the country's Feb. 23 election, a think-tank has found.
German think-tank CeMAS said it had tracked down hundreds of German-language posts on social media platform X over the past month exhibiting what it said were typical patterns of Russia's Doppelgaenger disinformation campaign against the West that German, U.S. and French authorities have previously denounced.
