Wegen der Schönbohm-Berichterstattung hatte Julian Reichelt kuriose Vorwürfe gegen Jan Böhmermann erhoben. Das LG Hamburg untersagte nun zentrale Aussagen in “Achtung, Reichelt!” wegen unzulässiger Verdachtsberichterstattung und Unwahrheit. Der Bericht des “ZDF Magazin Royale” über den früheren Präsidenten des Bundesamts für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) Arne Schönbohm schlug hohe Wellen. Bundesinnenminister Nancy Faeser (SPD) stütze die anschließende Ablösung Schönbohms auch auf den Vertrauensverlust infolge der Sendung vom Oktober 2022 und der Debatte zu möglichen Russlandkontakten. Gegen Böhmermann und sein Team gab es neben Zustimmung auch viel Kritik an der Sendung. Der Sendung wurde Inszenierungsfuror unterstellt. Nachdem Arne Schönbohm 10 Monate nach dem Beitrag öffentlichkeitswirksam Klage gegen das ZDF und das Bundesinnenministerium (BMI) einreichte, kochte das Thema wieder hoch. Ein gefundenes Fressen für die CDU bei der anstehenden Landtagswahl in Hessen, bei der Nancy Faeser für das Amt der Ministerpräsidentin kandidiert. Faeser habe Schönbohm wegen unbewiesener Behauptungen in der Sendung geschasst, lautet der Vorwurf gegen die Bundesinnenministerin. In der Sendung “Achtung, Reichelt!” lehnte sich der ehemalige Bild-Chefredakteur Julian Reichelt Anfang September besonders weit aus dem Fenster: Unter dem Schlagwort “Die Faeser-Komplizen vom ZDF” stellte er in den Raum, dass Nancy Faeser persönlich hinter dem Bericht stecken könnte. Zudem behauptete Reichelt, der Bericht des “ZDF Magazin Royals” enthalte “keinen einzigen wahren Vorwurf” gegenüber dem Ex-BSI-Präsidenten Schönbohm. Böhmermann: “Bösartiger Bullshit” Vorwürfe, die Böhmermann nicht auf sich sitzen lassen wollte: Auf dem Netzwerk Mastodon wandte er sich gegen die Unterstellung, sein Team und er könnten gemeinsam an der Absetzung Schönbohms gearbeitet haben. Das sei “ziemlich bösartiger Bullshit und natürlich komplett frei erfunden”. Anschließend ging die Produktionsfirma des “ZDF-Magazin Royal” (Unterhaltungsfernsehen Ehrenfeld UE GmbH) mit VON HAVE FEY Rechtsanwälten in Person von Rechtsanwalt Dr. Sebastian Gorski in die Offensive. Sie beantragte vor dem Landgericht (LG) Hamburg Unterlassungsverfügungen gegen die Sendungsmacher von “Achtung Reichelt!” (Rome Medien GmbH), außerdem gegenüber dem Portal “Nius – Die Stimme der Mehrheit” (verantwortet von der VIUS SE & Co. KGaA), wo ein gleichgelagerter Beitrag erschien. Die beiden Antragsgegnerinnen wurden von Rechtsanwälte Steinhöfel vertreten. Das Vorgehen hatte Erfolg. Mit dem LTO vorliegenden Beschluss (v. 04.10.2023, Az. 324 O 395/23) verbot das LG die Verbreitung des Verdachts, dass Nancy Faeser und/oder ihre engsten Mitarbeiter die Ausstrahlung der Schönbohm-Folge veranlasst hätten. Auch die Behauptung von Reichelt, keiner der Vorwürfe gegenüber Schönbohm würde stimmen, wurde untersagt. “Nius” wurde zudem die Aufstellung des Verdachts verboten, es sei zu brisantem Informationsaustausch zwischen Redaktion und BMI gekommen und BMI-Staatssekretäre könnten an der Sendung mitgewirkt haben.
A “friendlier” front for racist extremism has spread rapidly across the US in recent months, as active club channels network on Telegram’s encrypted messaging app. ON MONDAY EVENING, Gabrielle Hanson, a pro-MAGA mayoral candidate in Tennessee, walked through the parking lot of Franklin City Hall, on her way to debate her opponent, incumbent Ken Moore, in what was meant to be little more than a typical campaign stop in the small city of Franklin just south of Nashville. What made this scene so different was the fact that Hanson was flanked by members of the Tennessee Active Club, an openly neo-Nazi hate group. One of the men escorting Hanson into the building was Sean Kauffmann, the reported leader of the group whom the Southern Poverty Law Center says has been part of the white supremacist movement for years, and was photographed giving a Nazi salute at a Black Lives Matter rally. The group stood outside the building as the event took place, and they told a local reporter that they were there to provide security for Hanson, claiming that “credible threats” had been made against her. The Franklin Police Department tells WIRED that they have no information about threats against Hanson. Instead, the police department is investigating death threats made against local journalists by Kauffmann’s group in their Telegram channel just hours after the campaign event ended. The threats, which included anti-Semitic slurs and references to white supremacist literature, featured the image of one reporter’s home after one follower asked: “Who is this person? Where can I find them so I can beat the shit out of them?” Active clubs are a decentralized network of groups that have recently become the new, so-called friendlier face of the white supremacist movement, by promoting physical fitness and brotherhood while hiding their true nature. The movement has experienced explosive growth in recent months. For researchers who have been tracking the rise of this movement, the use of Telegram to disseminate threats like those in Franklin highlights the crucial role the encrypted messaging app has played in helping these groups recruit, organize, and spread hate speech to a huge following.
The Canadian is accused of killing four people by running them down with his truck. A self-admitted white supremacist who is accused of killing a Muslim family by intentionally running them over with his truck penned a racist manifesto just weeks before the killings. On June 6, 2021, a London, Ontario family waiting for a light to change so they could cross the street was run down by a black truck traveling at high speed. Witnesses say the driver intentionally swerved to hit the family. Salman Afzaal, 46, his wife Madiha Salman, 44, their 15-year-old daughter Yumna Afzaal, and Salman Afzaal’s 74-year-old mother, Talat Afzaal, were all killed in the attack. The only survivor was the family’s nine-year-old son. Nathaniel Veltman, 22, was arrested nearby outside the truck where he was found wearing a bulletproof vest and military helmet. Veltman faces four counts of first degree murder, one count of attempted murder, and terrorism charges. Veltman pleaded not guilty to the charges but five weeks into the trial it’s clear to see the evidence is stacked well against him. These include a lengthy interrogation interview conducted shortly after the murders in which Veltman admitted he was a white supremacist and bragged about the crimes, and now a rambling screed. The writing, the court heard, was full of anti-Muslim hate speech and indicated that Veltman hoped to inspire neo-Nazis to conduct similar attacks. On October 4, the court heard evidence of Veltman’s “A White Awakening” which had taken inspiration from Brenton Tarrant, the neo-Nazi who killed 52 Muslims in New Zealand in 2019. “A White Awakening” was structured similarly and ended with an obvious reference to Tarrant’s infamous ramblings. Evidence acquired from hard drives found at Veltman’s home show that just months before the killings, the young man had downloaded the livestream Tarrant made of his killings and watched it repeatedly. Veltman also had the written work of Anders Breivik, a neo-Nazi who killed 77 people (who were mostly children) in Norway in 2011. An agreed statement of facts between the prosecution and defense states that Veltman “was the author of all versions, including previous versions of the documents entitled A White Awakening.” A portion of the manifesto was read out in the court by the prosecution. The portion showed that Veltman was fixated on Muslims, whom he described as invaders, and wholeheartedly believed the popular “great replacement” conspiracy theory which posits that people of color are attempting to replace whites in Western and European countries. The language used in the Veltman’s writing echoes that of the hyper online far-right including the terms “cuckservative” and “libtards” and frequently uses various anti-Muslim slurs. One of the longest sections is about how white people need to stop fighting and join arms against Muslims. The manifesto also includes a long rambling portion about how a whites-only society would create a utopia where drug use, “cancel culture,” and depression would disappear.
Ein neuer Bericht verrät, dass KI-Anwendungen immer mehr zum Brennverstärker für Rassismus werden Es ist ein offenes Geheimnis, dass die diversen KI-gestützten Bilderstellungsprogramme, seit es sie gibt, auch für das Schaffen von rassistischen Darstellungen genutzt werden. Obwohl die großen Tech-Konzerne in diesem Bereich versuchen gegensteuern, läuft diese Entwicklung laut einem aktuellen Bericht derzeit völlig aus dem Ruder – speziell auf der für kontroverse Inhalte bekannten Plattform 4Chan. Die rote Pille Wie die Plattform “404 Media” recherchiert hat, gibt es auf 4Chan ein eigenes Forum, in dem Menschen dazu aufgerufen werden, aktuelle Bild-KIs dazu zu nutzen, “lustige und provokante Captions” zu verfassen. Im Thread wird erklärt, “redpilling message (Juden waren an 9/11 beteiligt)” zu nutzen, die “leicht zu verstehen” ist. Die dadurch entstandenen Werke sollen dann auf Social Media geteilt werden, um eine Flut an rassistischen Bildern zu erzeugen. In der Cyberkultur versteht man unter “red pill” bzw. “red pilling” eine Selbstbezeichnung für Menschen, die behaupten, die Wahrheit der Realität erkannt zu haben. Es ist zudem eine Referenz auf den Film “Matrix”. Vor allem auf den KI-Text-to-Image-Generator von Bing wird immer wieder als geeignetes Werkzeug hingewiesen. Es wird erklärt, wie man die Software austrickst, welche die Bild-KI DALL-E 3 nutzt, um fiktionale Charaktere Flugzeuge in die Twin Towers in New York fliegen zu lassen. Ein Bild in der Erklärung auf 4Chan zeigt einen orthodoxen Juden, der genau das tut. “Die meisten von uns nutzen DALL-E 3 mit dem unten angeführten Link”, steht geschrieben. Es sei die “schnellste Methode”. Auch “404 Media” stellt fest, dass aufgrund des Formats zu erkennen sei, dass “die meisten Bilder offenbar mit Bing erschaffen wurden”. Danach wurden sie zumeist auf Telegram, X und Instagram geteilt.
siehe auch: The Folly of DALL-E: How 4chan is Abusing Bing’s New Image Model. Far-Right Tech Team Racists on the notorious troll site 4chan are using a powerful new and free AI-powered image generator service offered by Microsoft to create antisemitic propaganda, according to posts reviewed by Bellingcat. Users of 4chan, which has frequently hosted hate speech and played home to posts by mass shooters, tasked Bing Image Creator to create photo-realistic antisemitic caricatures of Jews and, in recent days, shared images created by the platform depicting Orthodox men preparing to eat a baby, carrying migrants across the US border (the latter a nod to the racist Great Replacement conspiracy theory), and committing the 9/11 attacks. Meanwhile, users on multiple forums associated with the far right are sharing strategies to avoid the tech giant’s lax content moderation to create more racist material. One guide (uploaded multiple times this week to free file hosting services Imgur and Catbox) shows several examples of “good vs. bad AI memes” generated by Bing Image Creator, recommending that memes be funny and provocative, have a “redpilling message”, and be “easy to understand”. One of the AI-generated memes it claims is effective depicts male immigrants of colour with knives chasing a white woman with a Scandinavian country’s flag in the background, while another shows a crying Pepe the Frog being forced to take a vaccine at gunpoint. The guide and the image of an Orthodox man depicted carrying out the 9/11 attacks were first reported on by 404 Media.
Über 160 Juden, darunter Rabbiner, Vertreter jüdischer Organisationen und Künstler, haben eine Erklärung unterzeichnet, in der Elon Musk, dem Besitzer des sozialen Mediums X (ehemals Twitter) vorgeworfen wird, die Verbreitung von Antisemitismus und Verschwörungstheorien zu fördern. Die Unterzeichner erklärten, direkt an Musk gerichtete Appelle, dies zu unterlassen, hätten nichts bewirkt. Daher sei es nun an der Zeit, Druck von außen aufzubauen und »ihn dort zu treffen, wo es wehtut«. Ein Boykott sei die einzige effektive Maßnahme. NEONAZISTISCHE IDEOLOGIEN »Wir fordern alle Unternehmen und Regierungsorganisationen, die mit Musk Geschäfte machen, auf, ihre Beziehungen zu seinen verschiedenen Unternehmen zu beenden«, heißt es in der Erklärung. Partnerschaften mit einem Mann, der neonazistische Ideologien verbreite, könnten nicht bestehen bleiben. Konkret werden in dem Aufruf Disney, Amazon, Apple und andere große Werbekunden erwähnt. Sie sollten aufhören, X mit ihren Werbebudgets zu finanzieren. Auch müssten Apple und Google die X-App aus der Liste ihrer Angebote entfernen. »Wir haben unterschiedliche Ideologien und Überzeugungen, aber wir sind zusammengekommen, um die Gefahr anzugehen, die Elon Musk und X für Juden und andere darstellen«, so der Aufruf. Die Unterzeichner erklären, mit Entsetzen hätten sie miterlebt, wie sich »eine neue Phase des antisemitischen Diskurses« wie ein Lauffeuer in einem der größten sozialen Netzwerke Amerikas ausgebreitet habe. »All dies wurde von seinem Besitzer ermöglicht, nämlich Elon Musk.« HOLOCAUST-LEUGNUNG Seit Musks Twitter-Übernahme habe sich die Plattform zu einer Brutstätte für gefährlichen Judenhass entwickelt, auf der Randfiguren Verschwörungstheorien verbreiten. Dadurch würden Juden gefährdet. Neonazis und andere Antisemiten hätten von Musk wieder die Erlaubnis erhalten, ihre Ideologien zu verbreiten. Holocaust-Leugnung und Hassreden seien auf Twitter einst minimiert worden. Unter Elon Musk sei dies jedoch nicht mehr der Fall. »Ebenso schlimm ist, dass Musk selbst Antisemitismus betreibt und andere Antisemiten unter seinen mehr als 155 Millionen Followern gefördert hat«, so der Text des Aufrufes. Konkret wird dem Unternehmer und Investor darin vorgeworfen, er beteilige sich an der Initiative #BanTheADL. Diese wurde von prominenten Neonazis initiiert und richtet sich gegen die amerikanische NGO Anti-Defamation League, die sich gegen Judenhass einsetzt.
siehe auch: Phoenix-area rabbis sign letter condemning Elon Musk, antisemitism on X. Antisemitism has reportedly doubled on social media platform following Tesla owner taking the reins. Arizona Republic Show Caption Two Phoenix-area rabbis are among prominent Jewish community members from across the country who recently signed a letter denouncing what they argue is Elon Musk’s embrace of antisemitism on his social media platform, X, formerly known as Twitter. Published Tuesday, the X Out Hate letter calls for Amazon, Apple and Disney to pull their ads from X, and for Apple and Google to remove the platform from their app stores. As of Friday evening, 159 had signed the letter, which deems Musk’s actions on X as contributing to the spread of antisemitic discourse on the popular platform. The letter highlights his criticism of leading Jewish civil rights organization the Anti-Defamation League and his unbanning of notorious antisemites. “As leaders of all backgrounds, current and former leaders of Jewish organizations, artists, and activists from all over the country, we have watched in horror as a new stage in antisemitic discourse has spread like wildfire on one of America’s largest social media networks. All of this has been facilitated and enabled by its owner: Elon Musk,” reads the letter.
siehe dazu auch: XoutHate. 162 Jewish Leaders are Calling out Antisemitism on X We are a group of rabbis, leaders of Jewish organizations, artists, activists, and academics. We have diverse ideologies and beliefs, but we have come together to address the danger Elon Musk and X represent to Jews and others. As Jewish leaders of all backgrounds, current and former leaders of Jewish organizations, artists, and activists from all over the country, we have watched in horror as a new stage in antisemitic discourse has spread like wildfire on one of America’s largest social media networks. All of this has been facilitated and enabled by its owner: Elon Musk. We are speaking of course of X (formerly Twitter), which since his takeover has become a breeding ground for some of the most dangerous antisemitic discourse in America. It has made fringe figures mainstream, spread conspiracy theories that endanger Jews, reinstated neo-Nazis and other antisemites, and destroyed the content moderation that once kept things like Holocaust denial and hate speech minimized. Just as bad, Musk has himself engaged in antisemitism and promoted other antisemites to his more than 155 million followers. We are alarmed by his targeting of the ADL: not because of our views of the organization (we represent a wide range of views, including some who fundamentally oppose the ADL as well as staunch supporters), but because of the way he has used the organization as a very clear stand in for an antisemitic representation of Jewish power.
»Wir fordern alle Unternehmen und Regierungsorganisationen, die mit Musk Geschäfte machen, auf, ihre Beziehungen zu seinen verschiedenen Unternehmen zu beenden« https://t.co/67HyTHpGqF
Der rechtsextreme französisch-schweizerische Autor Alain Soral ist in einem Berufungsverfahren zu einer unbedingten Freiheitsstrafe von 60 Tagen verurteilt worden. Das Waadtländer Kantonsgericht befand ihn der Diskriminierung und der Aufstachelung zum Hass für schuldig. Soral musste sich wegen mutmasslich homophober Äusserungen vor Gericht verantworten. Der Holocaustleugner hatte 2021 in einem Video auf seiner Website eine Journalistin wegen ihrer Artikel in den Tageszeitungen «24 heures» und «La Tribune de Genève» unter anderem als «fette Lesbe» und «Queer-Aktivistin» bezeichnet. Dabei deutete er an, dass der Begriff queer gleichbedeutend mit gestört sei. Die Journalistin hatte deswegen im September 2021 Strafanzeige erstattet. (…) Diskriminierung aufgrund der sexuellen Orientierung ist in der Schweiz seit Mitte 2020 strafbar. Der 65-jährige Alain Bonnet, wie Soral mit bürgerlichem Namen heisst, lebt seit etwa drei Jahren in Lausanne VD. In Frankreich ist er wegen antisemitischer Äusserungen, Leugnen des Holocausts, Verleumdung und Beleidigung bereits rund 20 Mal zu Geld- oder Bewährungsstrafen verurteilt worden,
Musk has been sued for defamation many times before. Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X (formerly known as Twitter), is being sued for defamation over posts he made falsely accusing a man of pretending to be a neo-Nazi to stir up a “false flag” operation earlier this year. The suit was filed in Texas court Monday by Ben Brody, a 22-year-old California man, as first reported by HuffPost. Brody accused Musk of having triggered a massive harassment campaign against him through a series of misleading posts about an Oregon neo-Nazi brawl this summer. In June, a fight broke out between two far-right groups at an Oregon City pride festival. Footage of the fight circulated across social media, and soon, users started falsely claiming one of the men was a federal agent and attempted to identify him. Brody was wrongfully identified as the man in the video. Musk replied to several false X posts about Brody, amplifying them to his more than 147 million followers at the time. On June 27th, Musk replied to a post containing a video of the fight alleging that Brody was part of a “false flag” operation. “Looks like one is a college student (who wants to join the govt) and another is maybe an Antifa member, but nonetheless a probably false flag situation,” Musk wrote on X. As of publication, Musk has not deleted the post. “Being defamed by someone as famous as Musk was an utterly terrifying experience, and it has left Ben stunned, disoriented, and worried about the consequences on his future,” Mark Bankston, Brody’s lawyer, wrote on X Monday. Bankston previously represented two Sandy Hook parents in a case against Alex Jones, the notorious conspiracy theorist who falsely peddled the lie that the 2012 shooting never happened. The parents won $45 million in damages.
siehe auch: Elon Musk Hit With Lawsuit For Falsely Accusing Man Of Being Part Of Neo-Nazi Brawl Ben Brody, 22, said he was forced to leave his home after Musk falsely accused him of being a federal agent pretending to be a neo-Nazi. Elon Musk, the tech billionaire and far-right sympathizer, has been hit with a defamation lawsuit after he falsely accused a recent college graduate of being a federal agent involved with a neo-Nazi group. Ben Brody, a 22-year-old Jewish man from California, filed the lawsuit against Musk on Monday after he said he and his family were forced to flee their home after continued harassment and threats after Musk promoted a dangerous conspiracy against Brody. “In yet another example of Elon Musk’s serial pattern of slander, he falsely told the world that Ben Brody participated in a violent street brawl on behalf of a neo-Nazi extremist group,” the lawsuit, obtained by HuffPost, alleges. The lawsuit centers around a fight between neo-Nazi group Rose City Nationalists (RCN) and neo-fascist group the Proud Boys that took place in Oregon earlier this year. In video footage that went viral, a member of RCN had his face mask pulled off, and internet sleuths went to work hoping to identify him. But others dismissed the reality of far-right violence by falsely claiming members of the neo-Nazi group were actually federal agents. That included Musk, who amplified the false conspiracy that Brody was the man in the mask, then later suggested Brody was part of a “false flag situation,” in a post on X ― previously called Twitter ― that remains up today. “Musk made these ridiculously false and damaging accusations based on a tweet he had seen from an anonymous far-right extremist Twitter account,” the lawsuit alleges. “After amplifying the claim for two days, Musk personally leveled these accusations against Ben Brody, and it has led to severe personal harassment and permanent damage to his reputation.” Brody is being represented by attorney Mark Bankston of the Texas law firm Farrar & Ball. Bankston previously represented two Sandy Hook parents who won $45 million in damages against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones after Jones spent years falsely claiming the 2012 school shooting that left 20 kids and six adults dead never happened. Jones currently owes more than $1 billion to several Sandy Hook families for his lies. Brody is seeking more than $1 million in damages against Musk
