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The post that received 1 million clicks: GERMAN government provides REFUGEES with meetings with young girls!

2023-12-25 09:42:57Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

The post that received 1 million clicks: GERMAN government provides REFUGEES

Fake images or false claims, known as "fake news", regularly appear on social media - often using photos that are old or taken out of context. This example also shows photos unrelated to the user's claims.

Claim:  The German government (and other European governments) actively encourage adult migrants to meet young German girls in schools to "get to know each other".

This user (archived) claims on platform X (ex-twitter) that the German government "imports" refugees to then "purposely give them their own daughters". The footage that shows such a meeting should prove this. This user's post has been clicked over 1 million times.

DW verifies the facts: Wrong!

These photos that this user shared on X with these claims are neither current nor taken in Germany. They were made years ago and originated in Poland. This is verified through reverse search in Google or Yandex.

This search for screenshots of specific images from the post leads to various older reports or other social media posts that were published as far back as five years ago. So for example in a (archived) tweet from 2018. User Dariusz Matecki is the head of the right-wing populist party, "Sovereign Poland". He writes in an article about "multicult indoctrination camp in Poland". The same collage of images also appears in 2018 in a report published in the media in Poland.

Images are not affiliated with the German government

The other three images from the post on X come from the same year. All footage has been published on various Polish online sites dating back to 2018. The original footage is no longer available on the given media reporting sites. Either the profiles no longer exist or the photos are not on the respective profiles.

Reports and hashtags provide information that the footage was taken at Euroweek 2018, "Euroweek 2018" in Poland. According to the website, this week is an educational program for students of all ages as well as youth. In these different seminars the aim is cultural exchange. According to the accusation posted under the images, it is assumed that there must have been sexual abuse of minors. But according to the verifications of the Polish Education Authority, "Kuratorium Osëiaty in Wrocław" which handled this case in 2018, the accusations against the volunteer guardians of the European week have not been proven. The organizers did not respond to a written request from DW about the footage by the time the article was published.

How these images were made is not definitively known. What is clearly known is that the footage comes from Poland, from 2018 and has nothing to do with the German government. The German Federal Ministry did not want to respond to this specific case.

Migration often centers on fake information

Criminals, violent, parasites, this is how migrants are often presented on social media. According to a report by the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO), these narratives are more widespread in mainstream media. Migration is one of the topics where the most fake news, wrong, out-of-context photos circulate, according to EDMO.

After the Russian attack against Ukraine, the number of falsified information about Ukrainian refugees, but also about those coming from the Mediterranean, increased.

The purpose of this information is to denigrate refugees. To verify fake images or false statements, a simple search for their origin can be done in search engines.

At least one clue is obtained with this method, if it is a fake image. And who is still unsure, can use other reliable sources./ DW


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