15.06.2021 – 13:47
Central Bavarian Newspaper
Regensburg / Passau (ots)
He “looked into an abyss”: The Passau communication scientist Prof. Dr. Ralf Hohlfeld, together with students, examined channels of relevant corona deniers such as Attila Hildmann, Eva Herrmann, Michael Wendler and Rüdiger Dahlke and evaluated them for anti-Semitic and violence-glorifying posts. Compared to the social network Facebook, which has meanwhile been regulated by the Network Enforcement Act, communication in the instant messenger is significantly more raw. “The most shocking thing for me is the strong focus on anti-Semitism. In the end, it is always the” Jewish world conspiracy “that is to blame and of course the people who are associated with this supposed conspiracy,” said Hohlfeld in an interview with the Mittelbayerische Zeitung ( Regensburg)
In the Telegram channels, researchers at the University of Passau have also found open death threats against politicians, scientists and journalists. The researchers on Telegram also found calls for a coup d’état and storming the Bundestag. Hohlfeld: “Many of these statements are certainly justifiable. One can really only be amazed that it was possible over such a long period of time – we looked at the pandemic for half a year – that such a parallel universe could form.” The researcher combined this with a criticism of the authorities and the federal government for only now becoming aware of Telegram. The debate about regulating instant messengers like Telegram like Facebook would come late: “I don’t want to draw parallels with vaccine procurement, but you would have had much longer time to deal with this topic. It’s not just a few Days ago that Hildmann went underground and there are investigations against him. That was at the end of last year. ” However, it could also be a cat-and-mouse game: “You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know that these people will look for other platforms.”
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