Hacker leaks 281 GB of data from Germany's far-right AfD party

RicoElectrico

Sadly, we're in the tribalism era where it doesn't matter in the sligtest to the voters.

aliasxneo

> What is unusual is that the leaked emails are not published on the site directly. Instead, AI-generated summaries are shown, categorised and rated from Low to Critical. Interesting choice. I don't feel like I'm at the comfort level where I would really trust any of those summaries - although I can respect the reasoning behind it.

ChrisArchitect

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50157664 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50163502 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50184270

mentalgear

There are still some good hackers left. Hopefully this will send in place a party-shutdown procedure, because their voters don't care about already their apparent connections to Putin and Nazis. They have been grown on pure hate and 'protest against the system', and when they are in power, their voters will find out that they are much much more corrupt and uninterested in the public good than anything they claim the current 'establishment' would be. Exact same trajectory as pre WWII.

gadders

Where "hackers" = "security services". The same will happen to Reform/Restore in the UK. "Dominic Cummings warned on The Spectator's Quite Right! podcast that Whitehall and the civil service would resort to illegal tactics—such as leaking confidential medical and tax records or bugging phones—to prevent Nigel Farage and Reform UK from gaining power."

skew-aberration

From google translate of TFA's link https://taz.de/Website-veroeffentlicht-tausende-Mails/!62228... > It is about a party exclusion procedure against an AfD district executive who is said to have expressed Holocaust denial and glorification of Hitler. About a local leader who had to resign because of a "Heil Hitler" Christmas card, or about a member who is said to have written about "Muslims" and the "dirty monster Merkel". Another documented email subject is: "Sale of swastika flags and drugs at the information booth in Bottrop by district board member - measures required." So it's all about the party correctly applying procedures to keep out the people supposed to make up too large a portion of the party? We are in an era now where media publish leaks without having gone to the effort of compiling the facts into a story, just AI summaries. And in past cases where there have been revelations with even global significance, we get silence from authorities too. Maybe there's a better write up somewhere, or a month wasn't sufficient for media to work through it all, but I just got a bad Groundhog Day kind of vibe from the vagueness in that article. Is this what news is now? All the information, none of the journalism, none of the consequences.

voidUpdate

> "Indeed, party sources told the media that although the leaked emails appeared to be authentic, the AI-generated summaries appeared to contain several inaccuracies." Which is why I'm so confused that they did this instead of just publishing a "best hits" of excerpts or something, if the amount of content was an issue

sergiotapia

"far right party" it's candidate is a lesbian woman married to a foreign person come on now. Nothing far right about the afd.

flossly

These emails may be real. But that's yet to be confirmed. Yesterday The Economist interviewed AfD's leader, in proper English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cGGDu8sgXY The BitDefender article immediately goes of with labeling AfD as far-right. This is going on all over Europe when a party is against mass-immigration and "sponsoring Ukraine till the last Ukrainian". And at the same time the streets in EU's big cities look worse than ever: unsafer, uncleaner and more un-European than ever before. Immigration is not good for us, and receiving a label "extreme rightwing" (and Fascist, and Nazi) simply because you want it to stop is loosing it's power... I dont mind to be called as such anymore (and I used to even call others this label). In European vocabulary these "anti immigration of economically not-useful people" parties are not very rightwing: they are in favor of keeping the social benefit programs alive (that's why they want immigration of such people to stop).

declan_roberts

They should just make it illegal for people to vote for certain parties and this problem is solved.

ndom91

It's a bit overrun with all the traffic, but someones made a "jmail" style interface / webapp for this as well haha https://goebbelmail.com