however the online of soldiers come from a different more unexpected front social media editor janet reid welcome jarrett what have you been saying well phil one of the biggest threats to the german election online hasn't come from russia or as you said it's actually come from the united states and i'm talking about american right wing activists we've seen examples of them posting things on forums like four chan now four chan is a forum that sort of haven for conspiracy theorists and people with more extreme views let's take a look at example from four chan this thread is dedicated to boosting the far right alternatif in germany party or the i f j we can see a bunch of tools here for influencing the election like links to videos talking points and maims attacking rival parties there are also links to things like how to create fake profiles to infiltrate other policies and even a link to donate money directly to the alternative for germany so there's a really concerted effort across the atlantic to rile up the far right verges here in germany in their fifties campaign itself this is also b