• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    a main driver for a news coverage and reporting that is jointly responsible for the rise of the far right in Germany and Europe.

    I’ve tried to look it up, but I can’t really find confirmation that Axel Springer supports a far right agenda as claimed in the link.
    For instance “Axel Springer AfD” gave me nothing, and neither did it with “Axel Springer far right” ?
    This does not look at all like for instance Fox in USA.

    The OP story here, seems more anti Le Pen than pro IMO, Le Penn trying to be hardcore like MAGA.
    The story also label Le Penn as far right. That would be weird if they support the far right?

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      They are not that obvious. They do not talk good about the AFD but they have literally the same positions in politics.

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        OK, what i was after was a more precise description of where they stand, and AfD is absolutely not a good place to be close to.
        But this is not easy to find evidence of when looking it up in English on Google. Maybe it’s easier to find trustworthy info on that from Germany? Since they are a German media house.

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      Axel Springer SE owns (among others) Bild, Welt (both german “newspapers” operating with the most populist rhetorics propagating far right agenda) and Fakt (polish tabloid like Bild). Also, Matthias Döpfner, CEO of Axel Springer SE, for example found JD Vance’s speech at Munich Security Conference, where he called to end the isolation of Europe’s far right parties “inspiring”.