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Where Part I Ended # The first article of this two-parter traced where the Omas gegen Rechts Deutschland e.V. actually receive money:1

Methodological note. This text is based on primary Bundestag documents (Drucksachen), the foundation register, the AAS website, and publicly available material on the founder’s Stasi-IM past. Where amounts are only secondary-sourced, this is marked. The foundation does work against right-wing extremism that addresses an unquestionable societal need. The point here is not to deny it its legitimacy — it is to show what the foundation systematically does not show when presenting itself as a “civil society” actor.

Who decides what counts as hate speech on the German internet? And who pays for it? A look at the Alfred Landecker Foundation reveals a network that simultaneously funds Germany’s most influential “extremism monitor” — and an AI designed to detect hate speech automatically.