Activists conned Germany's far-right party out of 5M flyers

  • Summary:

    > ... AfD didn't have enough engaged supporters, so they were open to hire ... Flyerservice Hahn, a fictitious company.

    > @politicalbeauty set up a fictitious website, without registering a company ... created fake Linkedin ... contacting regional offices of the AfD with very low ball offers to hand out fliers

    > Close to the election they slowly realized that no flyers were handed out, but @politicalbeauty kept stalling them

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    I don't know the German system, but in many countries this would be fraud, and possibly election interference since the goal was political suppression.