Ahead of Germany’s federal elections, fake news and AI-generated propaganda is multiplying online.
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00:00Are hundreds of thousands of Germans marching for the AFD?
00:07TikTok videos claiming to show hundreds of thousands of people marching for the AFD in Germany have been going viral online.
00:14German media outlet Correktiv revealed that many of the videos have been manipulated, as EuroVerify can confirm.
00:21We ran the videos, which were posted by pro-AFD accounts, through multiple AI image detectors.
00:27Although the images themselves do not appear to be AI-generated, their audio has been manipulated.
00:33Here, the chants East, East, East have been placed over the original audio.
00:42In Germany, the states of Thuringia and Saxony are AFD strongholds.
00:47Although other videos display pro-AFD captions, if you turn the audio up, you'll hear anti-AFD chants instead.
00:55In this video, you can also see pro-Palestinian and LGBTQ plus flags.
01:03Although these videos have been posted in recent weeks, many images appear to come from the January 2024 mass protest against Germany's far right in Hamburg.
01:15In December, AFD supporters gathered for a memorial rally after the Magdeburg Christmas market attacks.
01:213,500 people are reported to have attended.
01:27Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Germany last weekend.
01:31They contested centre-right CDU leader Friedrich Merz's proposals for tougher migration rules, which were supported by the AFD.
01:39Ahead of Germany's federal elections, fake news and AI-generated propaganda are a growing concern.
01:45For more investigations and fact checks, take a look at our website, euronews.com.
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