Corona conspiracy theories: no case for catching protection
At the right and left emergencies of the corona demonstration events and the associated debate on the internet, the federal office for future protection (BFV) currently no new penalization can make up. You have "infinite crisp in ideology and conspiracy theory", BFV-prasident thomas haldenwang explained in the ordinary public statements of the bosses of german intelligence services in the parliamentary control panel (PKGGR) of the bundestag on monday. But that is "no case for catching protection".
Everyone has the right to believe, "that an aluminum helmet may protect covid 19 infections", constant haldenwang. The UNBER narratives were served in the network. From the right one is to horen that the crisis by immigration of suburban successes and migrants did not held to the corona regulations. Also the judian world vortex come to the language. The left complaint meanwhile that the state with repression measures are overdrawn. A potential third, difficult capable movement has so far "not such a huge dimension".
State disinformation
Other landers also tried, in times of pandemic "to operate their disinformation", the lawyer. Especially in the initial phase it has activities of russian media like russia today or sputnik given the government action criticized for demonstrations and afterwards "deleted reduced" had. But this was eased in the further course and is currently no longer detectable. Russia wool generally "destabilizing". Over detail he can not speak at public session.
COVID-19 has made such conflict potential significantly and anti-democratic positions in society, showed the 60th-year worried. Overall, the defamation takes on and offline, many debates were represented by irrationalism, especially when actors "in the depths of the internet puzzle ideologies" composed with likes and links. This is a "rising violence orientation".
"For the world order, the covid 19 pandemic is a stress test", did the prasident of the federal reimbursement service (BND), bruno kahl. They serve as catalyst for existing break lines. There are increasing aspirations, "through hybrid agents to create new dependencies" for example in the different contexts in which the US resumes. It remains space for espionage, desinformation, propaganda, the use of fake news or corporate purchases to achieve a supremacy and expand its own power.
Especially china and russia at the beginning of the crisis had to become a support for tatig with the corresponding "accompanying music in social media", lot kahl. The aim of such offers was also to weaken the cohesion of the western world, to portray the EU as an unfavorable to help and engraving the trench to the USA. Although not always money about a consporation against bill gates, such content became "also spread with bots" and develop partly one "toxic effect of loss of confidence". Science and medical institutions at the same time became increasingly on the field of foreign spies, with it not just about vaccines, but also to the organizational system.
Extremism allentic
As current "roughest threat for safety" haldenwang made right-wing extremism. Here there was more totungs and heaviest violence, the scene waxes strongly and become "virtualization and debuting" embossed. Against "lonely wolf" and online networks be the BFV itself with virtual agents on appropriate platforms. In addition, the office had set up a central office for right-wing extremism in public service and the cooperation in this area also intensified with foreign partnerships.
Everyone can connect to any whatsapp groups abroad, the boss of the militarian shielding service (MAD), christof gram, coated with regard to right groups at the bundeswehr and the special contribution group KSK. With "colorful, varied and sometimes very confused disinformations and postings" will conduct propaganda. Ideological boundaries are lost, mixed crops developed. But he did not want to talk about a substrate army and the head of a hydra in the powers.
Meanwhile, the chief of the domestic intelligence warn also against a left-wing extremism that "hulletal coals" duktus hatred and preaching preaching, persistent threats by islamist terrorism as well as new forms of state terrorism. "Berlin has been the capital of the spies for some time", claimed haldenwang. Especially russian, chinese, iranian and turkish intelligence services are active in the capital. Their inhibitions have fallen, weighed bawls on a corresponding new "particound of aggressive dear policy". Also had dangers of direct influence about the federal election 2021 "unrelated" and needed further accurate analyzes.
More funds and powers for the federal letter protection
At the same time cyber attacks "technically always more experienced", extended haldenwang. The federal office for safety in information technology (BSI) registration a month 64 alone.000 E-mails with a degree of accompanying government staff. Even at the cyber defense, it takes a 360 degree view, which take all the potential actors in a look. Digitization and technification also felt felt in case of closing and espionage defense. The BFV therefore need "further possibilities of the communication clarification", referred the lawyer to the current debate on the federal trojan. He showed confident, "that politics will pull the right conclusions". For instruments and resources now to use the red pencil, goods "the wrong thing you can do".
The domestic clarifier insured the national corona warning app that the BFV was not involved. The office will be next to the BSI "consequently, follow very closely", whether about the necessary bluetooth use vulnerabilities. Personally, he installed the mobile application on his private mobile phone.
