Attacke in Kongsberg: Medien verbreiten falschen Täternamen (Attack in Kongsberg: Media spreads false perpetrator’s name)

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  1. Attack in Kongsberg Media spreads false perpetrator’s name
    tagesschau.de October 14, 2021

    In the context of the attack in Kongsberg, various media in Europe are spreading a false name of the suspect. This was invented by so-called trolls on the net.

    After the suspected attack in Norway, media spread a freely invented name of the suspect. Various Italian, Greek and French media claim that the alleged perpetrator of Kongsberg is one Rainer Winklarson. A news site from Austria also adopted the alleged name of the suspected perpetrator, who had been identified in social media, the media claim. Moreover, he had allegedly already announced his crime in a video, it adds.
    Patrick Gensing
    Troll action

    In fact, the name is circulating in the social media, but it is an action by so-called trolls who deliberately want to cause confusion. For years, the name Rainer Winkler has repeatedly appeared in connection with alleged perpetrators of attacks. Winkler is a YouTuber who has made headlines several times as the “Dragonlord”. In 2019, hundreds of people had demonstrated in front of the YouTuber’s house, and in September it was reported that Winkler, aka “Dragonlord”, would have to stand trial again for insult and assault.

    In the case of Kongsberg’s Danish suspect, trolls made that name Winklarson to sound Scandinavian. They spread various tweets and videos claiming that Winklarson was the Kongsberg suspect. These allegations were then in turn taken over by various media outlets in an obviously unverified manner.

    The video mentioned in various news media has been circulating on the net for months and has nothing to do with the attack in Kongsberg. It was merely re-uploaded on YouTube and marked with the name Rainer Winklarson.
    Misinformation or disinformation?

    Google News now lists almost 50 media reports that have adopted the name Rainer Winklarson. The troll action from Germany even made it to Japan, where the Russian state broadcaster Sputnik took over a tweet claiming that the perpetrator was Rainer Winklarson.

    Experts refer to such gross journalistic errors as misinformation – that is, false but not deliberate misinformation. In contrast, the term disinformation is used for deliberately misleading reporting.

    Translated with http://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

  2. Norwegian police has announced the name of the perp. They don’t usually do that. Maybe it’s in response to the false reports

  3. This “dragon game” is getting out of hand since a couple of years now.

    There was a similar case a few years ago in [russian tv](https://youtu.be/gKWmKPu9U9Q?t=40), when his picture appeared as the alleged terrorist of an attack in Munich.

    It all started when that ‘Dragonlord’ screamed his entire address out in a YouTube video and since them he received a lot of visits. Some visitors are very violent.

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