Only 1000: Fake right-wing AI claim about the number of participants at Naidoo demonstration
Volksverpetzer
Only a few supporters, fake images, and right-wing extremist staging: A demonstration by Naidoo reveals how right-wing extremists exploit the issue of child abuse for their agenda and conceal the actual rejection among the population. But the majority oppose their propaganda.
Only about 1,000 people attended Naidoo's right-wing conspiracy demo in Berlin, but the right-wingers are once again lying about the extent of their support and spreading AI-generated images – complete with revealing watermarks. Even so, everything about it was embarrassing: because it is the far-right extremists who arrogantly hinder genuine efforts for the well-being of children with their conspiracy delusions. And yes, almost everyone at the demo proudly identified as "right-wing" – including the Hitler salute, of course.
So this is "the people"?
Around 1,000 people, including extremely far-right influencers and media, followed a demonstration call by conspiracy liar Xavier Naidoo on Saturday, March 14. This was significantly fewer than the organizers had announced beforehand: The rally leader and right-wing agitator Matthäus Westfal had registered 10,000 participants for the far-right tinfoil hat demo. Westfal is a right-wing internet activist and produces videos for the Afd-aligned Deutschlandkurier.
The absurd conspiracy stories behind the motto ultimately attracted far fewer people than the conspiracy theorists expected. The police even spoke of only about 750 people. By way of comparison: on a normal Sunday in Düsseldorf three weeks ago, 7,000 people could easily be organized for a demonstration against fascist Höcke.
The fact check:
A snippet of a video recording from the Victory Column shows how many people were really there.
Even when calculated with generous density estimates, the number can hardly exceed 1,500 people.
The fact that the demonstration received far less support than expected did not stop the far-right extremists from claiming the opposite. They repeated the classic pattern: simply claiming there are many more demonstrators, like the far-right influencer "eingollan" on Instagram. Anyone claiming otherwise is, of course, the "lying press," as was loudly shouted at the scene. And if the aerial photo doesn't show the thousands of demonstrators they would like, they can just fill the streets with AI.
The fake image, clearly recognizable by the watermark of Google’s AI Gemini, was spread by one of Germany's most influential far-right X-accounts – ironically as supposed proof that the police-reported number of 750 demonstrators was obviously false. The obvious fake apparently embarrassed him, and the image has now been deleted.
More fake images created with AI
Also, conspiracy liar Stefan Homburg, who gained a career in the pandemic with shameless disinformation in the right-wing scene, shared an AI-generated image of the demo. He later deleted it without clarifying that he had once again spread a fake.
He has already been caught repeatedly lying blatantly, but continues unabated:
There is also criticism from the right of Naidoo's far-right tinfoil hat demo. Another right-wing fake spreader criticized the demo for immediately labeling any critic of the demo (including from the right) as "p*dophile", and for the lack of evidence supporting the outrageous accusations made on stage by Naidoo & Co.
In this context, Aluhut Homburg apparently unintentionally admitted that he does not see the need to verify anything. And then it’s easier to imagine how seriously to take the content of this person.
Why Naidoo's demo was an explicitly far-right and conspiracy-ideological event
On the demonstration, which the far-right so eagerly exaggerate and manipulate, it was supposedly about protecting minors from abuse. In fact, some participants also shared stories of their own abuse experiences. This makes it especially insidious how Xavier Naidoo and his followers use the stage for their conspiracy stories without any evidence. Naidoo held back a bit this time; in mid-February, he fantasized about "cannibals" and "embryonic spices" in chips at a rally in Berlin. The organizers of the event against sexual child abuse, which the conspiracy ideologist tried to hijack in February, already distanced themselves from Naidoo and members of right-wing parties in advance, but could not prevent the hijacking of their event.
While Naidoo mostly made hints this time, other speakers spread conspiracy myths reminiscent of anti-Semitic ritual murder legends: It was claimed that diapering in kindergarten prepares children for later abuse, and there were again topics like alleged cannibalism and human flesh in food products. The extent to which the demonstration is influenced by the far right is evident from the appearances of the far-right influencer Michelle Gollan and another speaker.
Almost everyone at Naidoo's demo proudly identified as right-wing
Gollan is successful on YouTube with defaming queer people, anti-fascists, and protesters, interviews with Querdenker and far-right dog whistling (coded language). At the Saturday demo, she said, "I don't care" if she is portrayed as "far-right" in the media and received applause for it. Another speaker asked who among the participants was all right-wing. Almost everyone raised their arm. It’s not us who label the demo as such; it’s self-chosen.
In the crowd, even more careless far-right extremists gathered: A woman was arrested after making a Hitler salute and telling content creator Marcant in the microphone that she "loves Hitler because he was brave enough to oppose Jews".
And meanwhile, they forget to help the children
This mixture of far-right extremists, Holocaust deniers – apparently also anti-Semites – and conspiracy storytellers is once again hijacking the important issue of child abuse and instrumentalizing the suffering of victims for their own agenda. And in passing, Xavier Naidoo also uses the event to promote his new album.
Anyone who believes that even a single child is helped when these people make Hitler salutes, spread AI images of the demo, spread unfounded fairy tales, or fantasize about consumed human flesh is mistaken. On the contrary, they actively distract from real child abuse and hinder genuine child protectors. When real child protectors and abuse victims demonstrated in February and sought media attention, conspiracy ideologist Naidoo deprived them of oxygen and hijacked the topic entirely for his delusions.
The organizers only appeared in the media with their distancing – their stories and demands were never heard. The Instagram page has now been deleted. We are again only talking about the hatred and lies of the right. And Naidoo & Co ultimately completely prevented the demanded "justice for children." Instead, they instrumentalized the emotional issue against the delusional political enemy.
When it comes to exploiting the Epstein and child abuse topics for their purposes, far-right extremists and the AfD are quick to act. Sometimes they are also unintentionally honest, as AfD candidate Julian Adrat demonstrated in a post, which Volksverpetzer already reported on.
The AfD supporters are fake or from Nigeria
The far-right always doesn't care about the truth – and their lack of support among the population must be masked by lies. You don't have to be just cautious with crowds in pictures spread by far-right groups at large events. Even locally, AfD politicians craft the world as they like it.
Another example is Werner Schwaben, who was the first deputy in the Saarbrücken West district council to be voted out in January. Besides obviously AI-generated images, he also posts images of his "Afd round table" on his Facebook account.
Looking at the crowds in the background of the February and March images, it quickly becomes clear that the "visitors" who "listen to our posts while standing" cannot be real: they stand completely unnaturally in the room and stare at posters that are obviously also inserted by AI, with remnants of the original window frames still visible.
On another image are these visitors an army of suit-wearers, all looking in the same direction, some with faces so unrecognizable that they stand in front of a window wall, which don't even exist in that room.
But at first glance, it also looks like the AfD round table was a huge success. A message, which the AfD Saarland account also likes to spread, and a method that the AfD repeatedly uses in small and large. A recent analysis also found that the majority of posts supporting Weidel come from Nigeria.
Right-wingers have to fake support – because "the people" are against them
Because what is the AfD in reality? It is supported by the most powerful people and states of the world, supported by the richest, by many billionaires. It is bought a lot of attention and media power. When it comes to local politics, it has enormous problems finding people to run for office, who will stand for it. The recent Bavarian municipal elections were no different: in only 47 municipalities with more than 10,000 inhabitants, the AfD nominated its own mayoral candidate. In Hesse, it only ran in about a fifth of the municipalities last Sunday.
This fundamentally contradicts the narrative of "We are the people." A party that supposedly has the support of "the people" should have no trouble finding a handful of candidates in every community. Demonstrations claiming to represent "the people" wouldn't need to rely on AI images. The vast majority of Germans are against the AfD and right-wing extremism. You can't even imagine how strong the rejection is – precisely because it is not in the spotlight.
Two of the largest protest waves in the history of the Federal Republic were directed directly against right-wing extremism. And against this party – the anti-right protests of 2024 and 2025, with 2024 being by far the largest wave of protests ever! These people are not gone. These protests have made an impact. Money, billionaire support, and AI cannot replace the mass mobilizations.
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