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Anti-Muslim Germany
Background Information
This propaganda piece activates emotions since it is clearly supposed to evoke memories from New Year's Eve 2015 in Cologne, where a group of male migrants attacked and harassed numerous women. Media coverage proved that this picture is fake.
Technique Used
Activate Emotion
This is propaganda because
The picture occurred online on facebook and twitter posted by a member of the German right wing populist party AfD in context of the parliamentary elections for the Bundestag in 2017.
Original picture shows Lara Logan, the CBS reporter who was sexually assaulted by a mob in Cairo's Tahrir Square (see http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/cbs-reporter-lara-logan-opens-tahrir-square-assault/story?id=13492964).
Logans head is cut off in the propaganda pic, instead of it you see the one of glamour model Danica Thrall (see http://www.haz.de/Nachrichten/Politik/Deutschland-Welt/AfD-hetzt-mit-gefaelschtem-Foto-im-Internet (sorry; German language).
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