Fringe Benefits
Journal: World Policy Journal
Year: 2017

Just four days before Germany’s September parliamentary elections, posters urging voters to support “Putin for Chancellor” reportedly started appearing near the Reichstag parliament building in Berlin. An image of one of these posters plastered on the side of a building was published online by the Stockholm-based conservative news site Free West Media. Upon closer examination of the photo, it was clear that it had been doctored, and unclear whether the posters had ever actually existed. Neverthe