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00:00Fake News about the Magdeburg attack continues to spread online.
00:09Weeks after a car was rammed into a Christmas market in Magdeburg,
00:13killing six and injuring more than 200 others,
00:16false claims about the attack are still being shared by Internet users and politicians alike.
00:21This video, for example, has been shared with a caption saying that German police arrested Muslim extremists
00:27who support terrorism the day after the attack which saw a Saudi-born doctor plow into civilians.
00:33However, the video has already been community-noted,
00:36explaining that the video was shot on the 20th of December, a day before the attack in Magdeburg,
00:42and that it shows officers arresting participants at a pro-Palestine demonstration.
00:47In many instances, false claims about the attack have also been disseminated
00:51in the context of Germany's upcoming federal elections, in an effort to politicize the incident.
00:56Certain politicians have been at the center, such as Alice Weidel, co-chair of the far-right AFD party,
01:03who alleged that the perpetrator was an Islamist filled with hatred.
01:07However, officials say that Taleb al-Abdulmosen is an atypical attacker,
01:12and he's previously described himself as an aggressive critic of Islam while also expressing support for AFD.
01:18The party has distanced itself from the attacker, assuring it has nothing to do with him.
01:23This image allegedly depicts social democratic MP Saskia Esken speaking out against the deportation of the attacker
01:30and calling for him to be forgiven on political talk show lands.
01:34But fact-checkers have already debunked this.
01:36A community note shows that the timeline doesn't add up for when Esken allegedly made the comments and when the attack took place.
01:43Unfortunately, there are plenty of other examples of this,
01:46and as Germany's elections approach, it's crucial that citizens are correctly informed before they cast their votes.
01:53To be continued