Caution! There are currently a number of advertisements on Facebook that turn out to be fake news.
If you scroll through the news stream on Facebook, you will of course always see advertising in the form of sponsored posts. One of these posts claims to be a news report from the ARD Tagesschau.
In the article you can see the speaker Pinar Atalay and the Tagesschau logo, as well as the usual setting of the show. Robert Geis is pictured next to her.
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This fake image is intended to suggest that this is a Tagesschau report about Robert Geiss. The subtitle is “The Rumors Were [sic] Confirmed.” This sponsored post will look like this:

This is not the daily news!
However, this is not a contribution from the Tagesschau. What is depicted there is fictitious. We are dealing with commercial fake news that takes place in three steps. The first step here is the bait on social media. In our case, the bait consists of the fake Tagesschau picture.
The second step here is a website that appears in the form of so-called fabricated content, i.e. freely invented content. So if you click on this supposed daily news report, you end up on a website that claims to be a news website, but has absolutely nothing to do with the truth.
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This second step is the bridge. This is a pseudo-journalistic content that was deliberately written in such a way that readers of this article would click on various links in the article.
“(Late Night Berlin) – German businessman Robert is known as a successful entrepreneur who has no problem talking about how he actually makes his money.
Last week Robert Geiss appeared on Late Night Berlin and announced a new "capital loophole" that he says can turn anyone into a millionaire within 3-4 months. Robert called on all Germans to take advantage of this great opportunity before the major banks close it forever. […]“

The goal: one click
Here we are talking about the third step in the process: the goal is for readers to click on one of the many built-in links. These links all lead to a commission program. Most of the time these are dubious Bitcoin platforms where you have to invest a lot of money, but lose it in the speculative models or are then locked out directly on the platform.
In the end, it has to be said that it is not only the Tagesschau that is being misused for the lure variant on Facebook. The same Facebook page “Slotel” is currently advertising an identical variant in which a fictional BILD article can be seen. Together with SWR Marktcheck we explained how dangerous this fake news is and how it works:
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