Der Spiegel

Der Spiegel
Type	magazine
Founder(s)	John Seymour Chaloner
Founded	1947-01-04
Author(s)

Der Spiegel is a German language publication which has published various important stories including the first exposes of both the Bilderberg and Le Cercle.

Funding

In 2019, Der Spiegel received a donation of over $2.5M from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Important stories

In October 1955, Der Spiegel published the first known story about the Bilderberg meeting, publishing many names of attendees, and even terming it a "conspiracy" (in quotes). This was probably the most detailed report in the commercially-controlled media for over 50 years.

In 1980, Der Spiegel published information about Le Cercle. It printed the Langemann Papers after they were published in Konkret.

On May 9, 2017, Der Spiegel reported that federal prosecutors had arrested 'Maximilian T.', the second German soldier accused of plotting to commit the 2017 Refugee False Flag‎ attack.

In 2006, Der Spiegel reported that at least 40 percent of the information in a daily newspaper comes from PR agencies or from the marketing centers of companies, authorities and associations. Often the "news" comes along as supposed studies and is no longer perceived as PR.

Falsification

RT wrote in December 2018 that “This week, Der Spiegel, the German news weekly, was forced to admit that one of its former star reporters, the award-winning Claas Relotius, “falsified his articles on a grand scale.””

Academic purge

In May 2023, Spiegel advocated that the Covid-dissident Sucharit Bhakdi should be stripped of the title of professor. The magazine also advocated for a purge of academics who perpetuated "conspiracy theories", and specifically mentioned that this should happen to Michael Meyen, Patrik Baab and Ulrike Guérot, three other dissidents or critical academics in different areas. The article was written anonymously by Spiegel-editor Lisa Duhm.

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author
Bernd Hamm	“A good example is Spiegel, which was turned to the right under Stefan Aust and became more and more similar to Focus Magazine. This was perhaps most evident in the journalistic treatment of the attacks of September 11, 2001: After Aust and Schnibben had more or less codified the official line in their book, any doubts about this interpretation were fought off, ridiculed and declared an unfounded conspiracy theory.”	Bernd Hamm

 

Employees on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Appointed	End
Katharina Borchert	CEO	2010	2016
Christiane Hoffmann	Head of Opinion	2015	2018
Christiane Hoffmann	Deputy Head of the Berlin office	2013	2018
Bastian Obermayer	Author	April 2022

 

Sponsor

Event	Description
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation	Very influential and rich foundation established to take leadership of global health.

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Pro-Kremlin trolls infiltrating comments on news sites for major influence operation, research says	Article	6 September 2021	Deborah Haynes	A study at Cardiff University shows that "Pro-Kremlin trolls" are influencing opinion in the West by infiltrating the comments sections of news websites. Dissent from the Official Narrative? Must be Russian disinformation.

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