Germany has really been going down the tubes lately, what's most scary is that there are still people who somehow defend this...

It seems that there's hardly a country in Europe that isn't doing some messed up stuff right now. There's the whole surveillance thing the EU and the UK want to do. The far right seems to be having quite a comeback as well. Seems like England and France still hate Muslims.

I went looking for a source and found the official sanction, seems it's from May 2025. This post is inaccurate at best, Russian anti-EU propaganda at worst.

Dogru is listed as being a Turkish national with a Turkish address, so not a EU citizen according to the sanction at least.

The official reasoning is pasted here. It's mainly about him being part of the Russian propaganda machine, which is worth a sanction in my eyes, but the Gaza stuff is definitely worrying to bring up on a Russian sanctions list.

Hüseyin Doğru is the founder and representative of AFA Medya A.Ş. which is a media company based in Istanbul. AFA Medya A.Ş. operates “RED”, which comprises a number of media platforms, and which has close financial and organisational connections with Russian state propaganda entities and actors, and shares deep structural ties, including interlinkages between, and rotation of, individual personnel with Russian state media organisations.RED has used its media platforms – often publishing under “redstreamnet” or “thered.stream” – to systematically spread false information on politically controversial subjects with the intent of creating ethnic, political and religious discord amongst its predominantly German target audience, including by disseminating the narratives of radical Islamic terrorist groups such as Hamas.During a violent occupation of a German university by anti-Israel rioters, RED personnel coordinated with the occupiers to disseminate images of their vandalism – which included the use of Hamas symbols – through their online channels, thus providing them with an exclusive media platform, facilitating the violent nature of the protest.Through AFA Medya, Hüseyin Doğru thus supports actions by the Government of the Russian Federation which undermine or threaten stability and security in the Union and in one or several of its Member States, including by indirectly supporting and facilitating violent demonstrations and engaging in coordinated information manipulation.

What is with the people downvoting this comment?

Do you think what's happening in Europe is anything less than mass surveillance, or do you agree with it? In either case we stand against this crap in this community. If you want a community that is sympathetic to that bullshit go to !europe@feddit.org...

@r7bpjqd6@lemmy.world You're totally a legitimate account, not a vote bot at all 🙄

Russian anti-EU propaganda

LOL
Can't report on the fascists of EU and their fascist practices?
They have literally stolen money before from people before for having a different opinion on the war in ukraine than the regime.
But that's OK for you 'leftist-anarchist' clowns whose principles are defending the EU state and its warmongers.

the first?
Alina Lipp would like a word.

@Bloomcole@lemmy.world Found your main account, that was too easy.

Please specify how you jumped from this:

how close financial and organisational connections with Russian state propaganda entities and actors, and shares deep structural ties, including interlinkages between, and rotation of, individual personnel with Russian state media organisations.RED has used its media platforms – often publishing under “redstreamnet” or “thered.stream” – to systematically spread false information on politically controversial subjects with the intent of creating ethnic, political and religious discord amongst its predominantly German target audience

to this:

report on the fascists of EU and their fascist practices

The text clearly states that the "reporter" has been working as distributor of propaganda for a fascist regime. Do you really think that a person actively helping a fascist country somehow is an anti-fascist?

We are talking about a "reporter" who was put in the sanctions list because he has been working as a propagandist for the Russian Federation. He has also been writing about Gaza, but his main job has not been delivering real news, but help the Russia in its war against Ukraine.

He was not sanctioned for his Gaza journalism. (Although yes, as @smoothoperator@lemmy.world said, it is worrying that the text about his sanctioning mentions Palestine the way it does!)