Photo: DPABild newspaper ran a story detailing allegations of cooperation between Russian trolls and the Social Democrat’s youth leader. But a satire magazine revealed on Wednesday that it tricked the tabloid with fake information. Bild, Germany's biggest paper with a daily print run of over a million copies, titled the article "new smear campaign inside the SPD." In the email exchange Juri offers to use social media bots to target then SPD leader Martin Schulz on social media and to support Kühnert’s campaign against a new grand coalition. Hürtgen explained that he had been able to fake the email exchange by simply copying and pasting Kühnert’s email address into a text document.

Source: The Local February 21, 2018 15:56 UTC