Financial Times: The tactic, which relies on English-language posts being spread on platforms including Elon Musk’s X, is intended to help propel the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) into power, officials said. It marks a departure from previous Russian attempts to influence German elections, which focused more directly on German audiences.
…The campaign’s apparent aim is to persuade influential US-based, non-German-speaking X users to amplify realistic-looking but fabricated stories about Germany until they gain enough traction to be echoed by local politicians or picked up by mainstream German media…