Merkel Blames Populist Gains on Rise of ‘Fake News’

Germany, a country of 80 million, consumed over one million migrants and unvetted “refugees” in 2015.

Most of the so-called refugees were men in their 20s.

Chancellor Angela Merkel is expecting another million migrants this year.

In five to seven years the migrants will be able to bring in their family members.

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German officials recently updated their numbers. Two million, not one million, migrants entered Germany last year.
860,000 later left the country.

Angela Merkel is determined to continue this insane policy and can’t understand why she continues to lost support in Germany.

This week Merkel blamed “fake news” in driving the rise of populism in the West.
It looks like the left is just going to blame “fake news” every time they lose their grip on power.
AFP reported:

German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Wednesday against the power of fake news on social media to spur the rise of populists, after launching her campaign for a fourth term.

Speaking in parliament for the first time since her announcement Sunday that she would seek re-election next year, Merkel cautioned that public opinion was being “manipulated” on the internet.

“Something has changed — as globalisation has marched on, (political) debate is taking place in a completely new media environment. Opinions aren’t formed the way they were 25 years ago,” she said.

“Today we have fake sites, bots, trolls — things that regenerate themselves, reinforcing opinions with certain algorithms and we have to learn to deal with them.”

Merkel, 62, said the challenge for democrats was to “reach and inspire people — we must confront this phenomenon and if necessary, regulate it.”

She said she supported initiatives by her right-left coalition government to crack down on “hate speech” on social media in the face of what she said were “concerns about the stability of our familiar order”.

“Populism and political extremes are growing in Western democracies,” she warned.

Last week, Google and Facebook moved to cut off ad revenue to bogus news sites after a US election campaign in which the global misinformation industry may have influenced the outcome of the vote.

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