A picture of a politician and a snappy saying next to it that makes you angry: and yet another sharepic!
The following sharepic shows Martin Schulz and the sentence “Anyone who doesn't love the government is no longer part of the people. Basta.". There are no other sources or links for this sharepic. However, based on the graphic style, you can quickly see that it was originally a teaser image for an article on Halle-Leaks .
The website “Halle-Leaks” has already attracted attention in the past with pseudo-quotes.
The visual representation is always quite identical: the article preview or sharepic always express a clear and offensive thesis, the corresponding article on the website is rather secondary and also kept short. The Facebook preview already conveys everything that is to be said. So what happened here? Quite simply: this saying was created by taking an actually spoken sentence and changing it with the following elements:
- shorten
- radicalize
- leave out
- interpret
- twist
This creates a completely new structure, which then represents a fake quote and was never said that way by the “quoted” people. The original article also often has an identical structure:
- Manipulated quote as primary preview element
- Shortened presentation as a secondary element on the website, which is often no longer even noticed
- The last element in the chain is a click on the source location, which is necessary to understand the content, but is no longer done by many readers due to the clearly striking presentation of the preview image.
Origin
After presenting the methodology, we now come back to the sharepic currently found. This image was published back in October 2016 and is based on the following sentence, which was modified using the methods described above. The first sentence of the following quote, which Martin Schulz actually said, comes from a longer interview by Martin Schulz to ZEIT online, which was published on October 10, 2016 and was the answer to the question: “What do you think when people in Saxony chant “We are the people” and thus speak out against democracy as we know it?”. The interview is entitled “ The SPD must aspire to become the strongest party ”.
“ Those who today shout 'We are the people' and at the same time attack the representatives of democracy have not understood the cry and they are certainly not the people. The great sentence “We are the people” was always cosmopolitan, deeply European and never nationalistic and inward-looking. Helmut Kohl and Willy Brandt said back then: We want a Europeanized Germany and not a Germanized Europe. Therefore, German unity was a step within the framework of a European unification process. The borders should be opened and not closed. It is sad that today those who want the exact opposite are shouting this.”
The sharepic has now been decoupled from its article on Halle-Leaks and is being distributed on social networks in the form of a screenshot or re-upload of the graphic. Without mentioning the origin and the original quote, this image is of course nonsense.
Binary representation
In the world of Halle Leaks Sharepics there is only black or white, good or bad, right or wrong.
The statements in the Facebook preview only know the extremes and deliberately want to present them that way. This happens simply through the high-contrast choice of white font on a black background. The content line is very simple and demagogic: the supposedly bad guys want to mess with the supposedly good guys. Editing: Beate
Notes:
1) This content reflects the current state of affairs at the time of publication. The reproduction of individual images, screenshots, embeds or video sequences serves to discuss the topic. 2) Individual contributions were created through the use of machine assistance and were carefully checked by the Mimikama editorial team before publication. ( Reason )