The Constitution Protection Authority (German Internal Intelligence) said it was evaluating news reports of Russian propaganda about the outbreak of the Corona epidemic in Germany.
This came in a response to the German Interior Ministry to request a briefing from the German parliament (Bundestag) Thomas Hacker, which was obtained exclusively by the German newspaper Bild.
According to the German Interior Letter, "German Internal Intelligence is gathering information about the extent of the Corona epidemic by foreign countries and evaluating it through" Russia Today "and" Sputnik "agency, and that the federal police are investigating this matter.
A spokesman for the German Federal Criminal Police Office had told the Bild newspaper that Russia's state-owned channel, Russia, today is practicing misinformation and propaganda that reflects the position of the Russian government.
Russia has faced accusations of trying to influence the internal conditions of several European countries, in addition to accusations of interfering in the last US presidential elections and trying to interfere in the upcoming American elections, through media misinformation and cyberattacks, which Moscow denies.
It is noteworthy that the number of cases of corona in Germany rose Friday to 121 thousand cases, and the number of deaths exceeded 2700 deaths, while the number of people recovering from the virus approached 42 thousand.