
For months, the German public has been treated to a media-concocted spectacle of moral panic—manufactured, amplified, and weaponised with surgical precision and malign intent. At its centre stood the now-infamous so-called “Potsdam meeting;” a 2023 gathering in which right-wing figures, including Austrian activist Martin Sellner and figures linked to Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), the centre-right Christian Democratic Union, and the Werteunion discussed the topic of remigration. The encounter was elevated overnight from an innocent private event into the affirmed locus of a dark, conspiratorial ‘master plan’ to deport millions of people, including legal citizens of the German state. The only problem with the lurid tale? What the media claims to have been discussed never actually was.



No one knows where Donald Trump got the notion of annexing Canada. It hasn’t been seriously suggested by any significant figure in American politics for at least a century. There has been next to no take-up of the proposal, even among his MAGA followers.







