That’s also a lot of times a wrong assumption based on the trust we put in journalists to stick to the highest standards of reporting by trade. But these are no journalists, these are writers for hire that will sing any song as long as they get paid in cash and attention.

If someone wants to plant a thought in your head, like there is a huge problem with German far-left activists waging "war" against the infrastructure and people, while applying emotional pressure to you with the story of the poor man on ventilation who was slowly dying, which is a false representation, as this man never was at risk of life, they could have kept him on battery ventilation in his flat for days if necessary with mobile power stations and replaceable battery packs they have for exactly that reason and everyone who ever worked with rescue workers knows that.

The first thing you need to ask yourself is, what is their motivation to write an article like that and is there a bigger overall motive behind this kind of coverage?

With Axel Springer Publishing and their CEO, it’s easy to find out. As there are plenty of journalists who cover what and how they do it.

You could start with a piece from 2022:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/01/06/axel-springer-politico-...

and

https://www.spiegel.de/international/business/boost-for-the-...

and

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/apr/08/how-axel-sprin...

and then work yourself from there to find more English-speaking articles about the whole Axel Springer Publishing complex and the kind of journalism they do to make up your own mind if that is a source you can and should trust, or even share with others.

In my opinion this isn’t investigative journalism, it’s agenda journalism.

You can see this article break apart quite easily if you question some of the facts presented in the article and how the journalists purposefully don’t give you any proof for them and go to the “ trust us, bro” base.

Everyone speaks under anonymity, nobody wants to go on the record.

The letter announcing responsibility is never presented as being authentic. They couldn’t even find proof for that. There is a million euros on the heads of the suspected perpetrators, the same amount the US put on Bin Laden’s son, Hamza. But not a single arrest in connection with this attack.

There is no question that attacking the energy infrastructure, no matter by whom, is an attack on every citizen, and whoever did this needs to get the whole weight of the security services on their neck.

But to be fair, there is still no proof that this was in fact Antifa activists, all investigations, including a million euros bounty and kicking down doors, brought exactly 0 arrests.

So you’d be wise to ask yourself why the boys at Politico are crying wolf, and in whose interest they do it.