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Fake TikTok videos show hundreds of thousands marching for AfD in Germany
Ahead of Germany’s federal elections, fake news and AI-generated propaganda is multiplying online. #EuroVerify
The videos — posted by a range of AfD supporters' accounts — consist of footage of crowds accompanied by captions claiming that they represent hundreds of thousands of people gathering for the far-right party. Tens of thousands of people in Germany did take to the streets last weekend — but to protest the leader of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Friedrich Merz and his parliamentary proposal on stricter migration rules. Last month, South Africa-born billionaire Elon Musk made a surprise appearance at an AfD campaign event in the eastern German city of Halle, which 4,500 people attended.
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