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The pandemic, according to Häring, served as a "dress rehearsal" to teach the population discipline and delegitimize dissidents...
A network of EU institutions and the military are conducting an operation to control public opinion. The alarm comes from a German economic journalist, Norbert Häring, known for his critical stances on monetary policy and for his membership in BSW, Sahra Wagenknecht's party.
In his new essay 'Der Wahrheitskomplex' (The Truth Complex), Häring relaunches a strong and unconventional thesis: for more than a decade, a network consisting of European institutions, military apparatuses and pseudo-independent organizations has planned and implemented a sophisticated operation to control public opinion.
As Häring himself explains to Achgut, reported by the Berliner Zeitung, the Truth Complex is not the result of chance or spontaneous initiatives.
"The starting point is 2014, the year of the conflict in Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea. That's when the propaganda conflict with Moscow heated up, " he explains.
Since then, a galaxy of actors, from NGOs to EU-funded fact-checkers to think tanks like the Atlantic Council, have reportedly worked together to create a single acceptable "truth," branding any critical voices as "Russian disinformation."
The most striking example, according to Häring, is the European program EDMO (European Digital Media Observatory).
"EDMO is headed by a very senior EU Commission official and is financed by European funds and a Google fund imposed by the EU itself on the tech giant. It is a real ministry of truth ," says Häring.
-The role of expert groups
Even more worrying, for Häring, is the entanglement with military structures. The Atlantic Council, defined as "the political arm of NATO," is a kind of information center where former senior officials, former CIA directors, and national security advisers dictate guidelines that are then implemented by the EU Commission.
" In one of their publications, they openly write that truth and facts are two different things, and that control over the truth has always been important for the powerful ," reveals Häring.
The pandemic, according to Häring, served as a "dress rehearsal" to teach the population discipline and delegitimize dissidents. Among the main objectives of the German's book is the European Digital Services Act (DSA), which Häring sees as a law designed to censor content that is not illegal, but simply "harmful."
"The so-called shadow ban, the covert reduction of the visibility of certain content, is incompatible with the rule of law. If an opinion is illegal, it is blocked; otherwise, it is protected by freedom of expression ," he says.
The author cites the case of theories about the laboratory origin of Covid, which have long been labeled "false" and only later re-evaluated.
-Feedback and criticism
Häring's theses quickly provoked reactions. On the European front, sources close to the Media Commission stressed that EDMO is transparent and that fact-checking is "a tool to protect against disinformation," not an imposition of the official truth. Several other journalists also expressed skepticism.
Häring's book touches on one problem: the increasing transparency of funding for news agencies (dpa, AFP, APA) and their participation in EU-funded fact-checking networks.
Häring himself admits that tracking money flows is "a challenge" and that the lack of transparency "raises suspicions."/ Adapted from "Pamphlet" by "InsideOver"
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