That looks a lot like spadework to censor Wikileaks in the run up to the German elections . A new and disturbing factor emerged during the US presidential campaign , one that may change elections forever democracies are at the mercy of hacking and surveillance technologies , and of those who control them . Already there are disturbing signs that this may affect Germany ' s federal elections in September 2017 . From an a r t i c l e e r a e l e c t i o nsdecidedhackerswikileaks entitled The New LeakOcracy Elections Decided By Hackers And WikiLeaks . Hacks on German politicians and o r g a n i s a t i o n s a t t a c k s targetgermanpoliticiansav 19567000 were reported in September . I think this quote from European Parliament Newsroom 20161118 STO 51750 tacklingpropagandait ' s a c o n t i n u a t i o n o f m e thodsusedduringthecoldwar explains why Russia has been put in the same bucket as ISIS and Islamic terrorist organisations and individuals , and that the purpose is preventing what happened during the US election with leaks exposing racism , corruption and those who put themselves above the law . All whistleblowers are now Russian and should be treated the same as Islamofascist terrorists so counterterrorism and radicalisation prevention measures can be usedThere are many theories about what happened in the US , but do they have the power to affect elections in Europe ? . We have tools that are at disposal of any EU member state to monitor social media and cases of radicalisation . It ' s of course a big effort , yet we are now aware of things thanks to a very open cooperation and information coming from the capitals . Look at power trying to protect itself from democracy . Edit formatting