Last Friday, 18 people were injured in a knife attack at the main train station in Hamburg. Fifteen of them were stabbed, and three other injuries. The German news agency DPA reported that four suffered deadly injuries, but now all were in a stable position.
A 39 -year -old WOMA Hamburg officials believe that “a psychological was experiencing emergency”.
After the attack, a major operation was carried out at Hamburg station, including police, fire service and emergency medical reaction.
The police later appreciated the “rapid intervention” of the two passers -by, who managed to stop the woman, took the knife from him, and until the authorities arrived to arrest him, pinned him down, as the local media later told him.
One of the passers-by is Muhammad al-Muhammad, a Syrian teenager who came to Germany in 2022. As more and more outlets have reported on their courage to intervene, it has become the center of a national conversation dominating right -wing media narratives.
German weekly news magazine mirror Recently published in the article on Al-Muhammad. The main image he had shown for his report was proved by Al-Muhammad Himfael. It is a little manipulated and renovated to pay false information online.
‘Posts like these echo right -wing feelings’
The original image shows al-Muhammad standing in Berlin in front of Brandenberg Gate. Online users have copied their lien on the background showing Washington DC or Moscow.
Thesis posts are accompanied by sarcastic comments like “The Peace Dialogue” [between Russia and Ukraine] Can now start, thanks to Muhammad al-Muhammad, “saying that media reports on him have been given a positive spin so far.
Una Titz is a media expert at the Amadeu Antonio Foundation, who competes with right -wing extremism and racism.
“The fact is that a Syrian person is a savior [in this story] Does not fit the world vision that refugees, and special Syrian refugees, are similar with violent attackers and knife attacks, “she told DW.” The goal of such positions is to resonate right -wing, populist feelings. ,
German tabloid Picture Hence the image of Muhammad al-Muhammad was released, which later manipulated and broadcast to spread false information.
But the thesis post has not only expressed insults or mistrust on its courageous act, he has made people uncertain about the truth of the facts presented to the people.
‘How did you do this?’
While some photos Montaz, which usually indicate that the famous cultural monuments appear to be al-Muhammad, can easily be seen as fake, others are much more confident.
A search image that is widely extended is an AI-Janit Montaz that depicts the original image of Al-Muhammad standing in front of the Brandenberg Gate in Berlin.
The manipulated version suggests that a young man appears to have a striking equality for al-Muhammad that looks like a lively German train station.
But the young man’s face is compared to al-Muhammad, his characteristics are smooth, logo appears to be deformed on his jacket, as behind the writing board. The faces of the people standing behind him appear out of the ratio to some extent.
Originally, this image is at the Hamburg main train station, to show Al-Muhammad in the scene of the crime. But it has made users uncertain about the actual course of events. An account on X made the following comments: “Her hair is perfect, her [hooded sweater] The same is, his biceps have shrunk – overnight. How did you do it, preslets? ,
The word “Preslet” is an dismissal term for the press meaning to emphasize inexperience and ducians reporting. The post was viewed more than 600,000 times in the post at the time of reporting.
Although established media outlets avoided using this AI-produced image of Al-Muhammad in their reporting, false image affects the media defaming and accusing them of false accounts.
As a result, many online users felt more that Muhammad al-Muhammad also existed, or that he had played an important heroic alone alone in the Hamburg knife attack, or the media had portrayed him correctly.
Media expert Titz, who specializes in so many ways- and reduces democracy reducing disintegrations, suggests that the discovery of the press adds a conspirator after the discovery.
The expert explained, “It not only spreads and affects insecurity.” “We have families with people in the so -called ‘Psyops” with the confidence of the people. [psychological operations, editor’s note] In America. There, some people are convinced that the moon landing or some attacks were myths, which were invented by the CIA. ,
When officers and media loose reliability
The right-wing German Tabloid Extra 24 has raised this message, meaning that Al-Muhammad is not a real person. “Why does the current police report not kill Muhammad al-Muhammad, even though the police have clearly treated ‘a Cappukino as a reward’?”
Question means mirror The report, in which Al-Muhammad told reporters that the police had given him a coffee after a coffee, when he arrested the suspected attacker to thank him for his role in unfamiliar.
The fact-checking team of DW approached the Hamburg police to know more. He replied that “it is a perfect practice for witnesses, victims, suspects, etc., not the principles, on the principles, in policy reports, the right to the dignity, privacy and identity of a person’s personnel, which a law enforcement agency should have a law enforcement agency at all times, the basis of this practice.”
The police confirmed that, for their knowledge, one of the passers-the-passers-mentioned passers-by was named Muhammad Al-Muhammad.
This disintegration around the young man has been told. “This creates an atmosphere of uncertainty, in which reality is said in question,” he explained. “So, parallel to empirical established facts, which journalists researched well, we look at more alternative realities and accounts.”
This article was translated from German.
