Overview
- t-online reported that Facebook’s data showed 13 administrators on Sahra Wagenknecht’s page, including one listed with a main location in Russia.
- After the inquiry, three administrators were removed from her page and the Russia-linked entry no longer appeared; Oskar Lafontaine’s page also showed one fewer admin.
- Wagenknecht’s office denied employing staff based in Russia and said the indicator likely reflected a German employee who visits Russian relatives.
- Meta has not clarified how it determines a page administrator’s “main location,” a metric it introduced for transparency after foreign disinformation campaigns.
- The episode renews scrutiny that intensified after reports in 2025 of her office manager’s Moscow meetings with figures tied to a Medvedchuk-linked network under investigation.