Don't be fooled! Please excuse this expression, but there is currently a fake interview floating around on Facebook that has duped not only Facebook users but also reporting media. According to this, Jan “currently across all the media” Böhmermann gave an interview to Kai Dieckmann.
Kai Diekmann, editor-in-chief and publisher of BILD (Axel Springer Verlag) published a long interview with the interviewee “Jan Böhmermann” on both Twitter and Facebook, as well as a juicy headline image in BILD style:
Now that's what I call a scoop! @janboehm exclusive! The interview! Must read! https://t.co/M74hszps0K pic.twitter.com/3zQgG3QBqV
— Kai Diekmann (@KaiDiekmann) April 13, 2016
A devil of a man...
... this Kai Diekmann. You might think so if you rely on the headline and don't read it more closely. A devil of a man who gets this “we all want him right now” Böhmermann for an interview. You can read the entire “interview” on Diekmann’s Facebook account:
Fakes are dangerous!
Especially in this case, because Böhmermann's situation is not without danger and if this ... satire (?) on Diekmann's part is not recognized in other places, that is just pouring fuel on the fire. There is a strong abrasion from Aktuell.de (Süddeutsche Zeitung) [ 1]:
“For someone, a colleague in the broadest sense at that, who is under a lot of pressure to now make harsher statements into their mouths is unbelievably bad, even for a BILD editor. The fact that Diekmann means it as fun and probably wrote the text alone doesn't make it any better. He will be able to be sure that the editors and his publisher will at least approve of such an air act. And so it's the old BILD pattern: Anyone who's lying on the ground becomes a target. BILD is the journalistic equivalent of the thugs who kick unconscious victims in the face again.”
How Diekmann expresses himself? Cryptic!
I'll say it in the words of the false Böhmermann: “The whole of life is satire. You just have to recognize them.” #Boehmermann #Interview
— Kai Diekmann (@KaiDiekmann) April 13, 2016
Just as cryptic as BILD said to N-TV [2]:
When asked by n-tv.de, the “Bild” newspaper only commented cryptically on the whole story and neither wanted to confirm nor deny it. “We want to maintain the tension curve a little longer,” said a spokesman.
Manometer, you're all funny. Oh click me!
Diekmann's exclusive interview is almost perfect. You'd almost think he'd had years of practice producing fakes.
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