KenFM

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KenFM
https://kenfm.de/
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languages German, English, French, Russian, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
owner Ken Jebsen
Published 2011
status on-line
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KenFM (YouTube)
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YouTube channel ( politics )
language German
founding January 22, 2012
channels KenFM
Subscribers > 490,000
Calls > 140,000,000
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(updated Aug. 2, 2020)

KenFM is the name of a website and YouTube channel that has been operated by Ken Jebsen since 2011 . They were created with elements of a radio program of the same name that was broadcast on the Fritz youth channel from 2001 to 2011 . The content of the website and the channel are categorized by journalists and scholars as conspiracy theory .

KenFM as a radio broadcast

Beginnings

KenFM was the name of a four-hour weekly radio broadcast from 2001 to 2011 produced and hosted by Ken Jebsen. It was broadcast for the first time on Saturday, April 28, 2001, from a fashion store on Marienstraße in Berlin-Mitte . It ran in 545 episodes on Radio Fritz, initially on Saturdays from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m., and from January 6, 2002 on Sundays from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. The brand "KenFM" let Jebsen on 7 March 2002 by his lawyers submit itself.

Topics and interview guests

The program offered a total of 15 categories, including a. "Smart press" and "Retrospect". Guests were regularly interviewed on current topics. Interview guests were u. a. Boris Aljinovic , Götz Alsmann , Alf Ator (Alexander Thomas) , Wiglaf Droste , Daniel Fehlow , Alexa Hennig von Lange , Oliver Kalkofe , Sabine Schiffer , Marco Seiffert , Werner Sonne and Klaus Wowereit .

Controversy and separation from RBB

In a radio broadcast in August 2011, Jebsen dealt in detail with what he called the “ 9/11 terror lie ”. In it he claimed that the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 were staged by the Americans themselves in order to create acceptance among their own people for wars that served to secure oil resources . In the broadcast he described the collapse of the World Trade Center towers as a “warm demolition”. In another radio show, Jebsen dealt with what he called the "PR performance of Al-Qaida ". He stated that the mass media were responsible for the "perceived terror", "which has increasingly degenerated into the megaphone of the government circles concerned".

On November 6, 2011, KenFM was not broadcast. References to the program or Jebsen have been temporarily removed from the sender's website. As a reason for this, Jebsen cited that Henryk M. Broder had accused a listener of this anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial in an email to the program management of the rbb , referring to an email from Jebsen . Jebsen contradicted these allegations, but did not deny having written the mail. On November 7, 2011, Fritz's program director, Stefan Warbeck , announced in a statement that these measures had been taken to “protect our moderator Ken Jebsen, Fritz and the rbb from harm”. On November 9, 2011, the rbb declared the aforementioned allegations against Jebsen to be unfounded and decided to continue to employ him as a moderator. Program director Claudia Nothelle said that Jebsen “crossed the line in some cases” and did not comply with journalistic standards. He should discuss political issues in the future and emphasize KenFM much more as an entertainment program that is about the music scene. On November 13, 2011, KenFM went back on the air. In this broadcast, Jebsen admitted to having "written a private mail to a listener in a misleading manner". However, the accusation that "he denies the Holocaust" is "absurd".

On November 23, 2011, the rbb finally took the radio program out of the program and parted with Jebsen. The broadcaster justified this step by stating that Jebsen had "made binding agreements on the design of the program 'KenFM'", which he had "repeatedly failed to adhere to". In addition, the moderator “put articles online on the 'KenFM.de' site without consulting the editorial team”. Program director Warbeck took over responsibility for the “editorial omissions” and gave up program responsibility for the youth program “Fritz” at “his own request”. He sees himself “no longer able to lead the program appropriately”. In an audio contribution on YouTube , Jebsen also rejected these allegations and in an interview with Märkische Allgemeine announced the continuation of the program on YouTube: “KenFM will continue to exist, there is no question about that. I will not be silenced. "

KenFM as an online program

At the beginning of January 2012, Jebsen launched an appeal for donations on YouTube, in which he campaigned for an annual budget of 100,000 euros to be able to publish his program under the same name on the Internet with "one hundred percent independence". Radio reports, interviews, comments, video reports and an interactive “platform for political and social issues” are planned.

Issues, controversies and conspiracy theories

Banking system and financial policy

Based on the discontinued radio broadcast, Jebsen published a four-hour audio report on Sunday, December 18, 2011, at 2 pm on the kenfm.de website , in which he addressed the question of “how money works”. The Austrian economist Franz Hörmann was the interview guest on the subject of the “ banking system ” . Sonja Pohlmann from Tagesspiegel commented that Jebsen's first broadcast after he was thrown out was a "Jebsen-style show: unusual, exciting, but sometimes crude theories and wild collages."

Zionism, Israel

On April 5, 2012, Jebsen published a 57-minute long monologue on the KenFM YouTube channel entitled “Zionist Racism (youngest victim: Günter Grass )”. He claimed that the United States and also the mass media were infiltrated by radical Zionists . "It is a media weapon of mass destruction that has helped us shut up for over 40 years when people are being exterminated en masse on behalf of the State of Israel ," said Jebsen, referring to the discussion about Günter Grass' poem What Must Be Said . Israel systematically exterminates the Palestinians in order to "make room for the chosen people". Broder "would have made an excellent camp commandant in the Third Reich ". About the so-called " Holocaust industry " by Norman Finkelstein , Jebsen stated in this article: "An association that sees anti-Semitism always and everywhere, even if the politics of the State of Israel are criticized completely independently of its religion." The Tagesspiegel placed Jebsen two days later in the " conspiracy theorists " section. However, he denied being an anti-Semite. The “conviction that the powerful in the USA are controlled by people with Jewish roots, whose goal is the 'creation of an Israeli empire '” is not anti-Jewish.

In October 2017 a text was published on the Internet portal of KenFM, in which Israel is described as a “symbol of horror” and “largest prison in the world”. The article also refers to an alleged " genocide in Gaza " and claims that the "Zionist regime" in Israel enjoys "special rights worldwide".

Refugee crisis

In March 2017, Jebsen had the right-wing populist conspiracy theorist Gerhard Wisnewski spread the thesis, without being contradicted, that the refugee crisis was deliberately managed and that “for example with masses of migrant children who are not willing to learn in this way” leads to a “disorganization” of Germany and Europe. This will lead to clashes between locals and immigrants. Jebsen agreed with him: "You feel overrun".

Criticism of democracy

The representative democracy is the mission critical or dismissive: It is "a sham, whose aim is mainly to let the people starve on the long arm." The ruling elites would "treat us not like their wards, but like their slaves ."

Media criticism

Ken Jebsen at an award ceremony for the blog NRhZ-Online (2014)

Jebsen is critical of the Internet , on which he publishes himself, because, through the balance of all news and its focus on entertainment, it is in the process of becoming “the greatest method of slavery of mankind”. Google can therefore be compared with the National Socialist Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels . In this media criticism, Jebsen refers to Noam Chomsky , Marshall McLuhan and, in a broadcast from 2014, also to the “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski . Jebsen wrote about his letter bomb attacks :

“When the exceptional mathematician, a genius, realized where the journey was going and who made this journey possible in the first place - mathematicians who, as programmers on behalf of the elite, were in the process of creating a tool that would bring us all to Orwell State catapulted - he reached for explosives . "

KenFM is very critical of Wikipedia , which the Swiss journalist Roger Schawinski attributes to the preference for mainstream media in the Google results. In 2017 the film Censorship was published on KenFM , which advocates the thesis that the online encyclopedia is "misused as a tool and part of a larger network for political-ideological manipulation". Jebsen himself criticizes false information about his real name, which can be traced back to statements made by himself, and sees a small group of fanatical authors at work on the German Wikipedia who, disregarding their own regulations, would defend a worldview that they apparently “agree with” take one from the White House like members of a sect ”.

Attack on the Berlin Christmas market

In a commentary for the Tagesspiegel counts Ahmad Mansour KenFM to the websites that spread conspiracy theories. The attack on the Berlin Christmas market at the Gedächtniskirche in December 2016 raised the question of "how 'strange' it is that the Berlin terrorist is said to be the fifth Arab assassin who left his ID at the scene of the crime". References were made to the attacks on September 11, 2001, where "the unharmed ID card of one of the fatal pilots was found 'strangely' in the rubble". "Versatile", "the spokesman implies, that the perpetrators from Paris , Nice and Berlin , who were shot while trying to escape, could no longer testify in court."

Abortions

In February 2017, according to Tagesspiegel on KenFM, Jebsen speculated that the protests of the Women's March on Washington for women's and human rights had been directed by investor George Soros . The latter "hoped for an increase in abortions so that he could earn money by selling dead embryos to the pharmaceutical industry ". Jebsen, who, according to Sebastian Leber, likes to complain that journalists only write about him but never speak to him, left an interview request unanswered, another one of Jebsen's employees declined.

Covid-19 pandemic

KenFM is spreading misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic . In April 2020, the television magazine Monitor described KenFM as “one of the best-known 'alternative' platforms in Germany”, on which “hasty trivializations would become the basis for angry comments against the system”. The government measures after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic were referred to in various articles as the “Corona dictatorship”, “seizure of power” and “asymmetrical war” of the “super rich against the remaining 99 percent” ”. They wanted to “show a 'variety of perspectives'”, countered the KenFM editorial team to a request from Monitor.

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

After one of several videos for alleged machinations of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation , which had within three days five million views, pointed Nils Metzger in fact check of ZDF heute out the Gates Foundation does not financiers 80 percent, but only 10 percent of the WHO , the payments to several German media such as the mirror are earmarked, payments also did not go to people ( Christian Drosten ), but to institutions ( Charité ). The Paul Ehrlich Institute can rule out that people, as Jebsen claims, are exposed to an increased risk through accelerated approval processes . Jebsen's shortened view of Art. Article 20, Paragraph 4 of the Basic Law ( right of resistance ) does not mention the possibility of “other remedies” through the courts. In a separate fact check on May 10, 2020, ZDF refuted the false statements made by KenFM about the foundation's goals and motives.

Communication strategy

In the opinion of Philipp Müller from the University of Mannheim, Jebsen's goal is to withdraw legitimacy from socially responsible persons. He aggressively urges his viewers to stop paying attention to professional journalism, especially the public service media. Channel operators like Jebsen, according to ZDF's Nils Metzger, are using the corona crisis "to break out of this filter bubble and also to reach people with their content who have not yet come into contact with conspiracy myths."

Employee

At the end of 2016, the internet portal had five employees and 20 freelance authors. According to its own information, it is financed exclusively through crowdsourcing and donations. The amount of donation funding is not publicly known. According to Storz, the number of employees as well as the scope of the Internet offer indicate “significant financial resources and / or a very high and above all constant voluntary commitment”. Jebsen's production company "sector b" operates in Blücherstrasse in Berlin-Kreuzberg . There she only has a mailbox; where KenFM is produced is not known. KenFM has rented a studio from TV United for a talk show.

Reach and response

The Internet portal was visited by an average of 100,000 users per day at the end of 2016. The portal's YouTube channel had over 150,000 subscribers and was viewed around 40 million times. At the end of 2017, KenFM's Facebook offering had 272,000 subscribers.

In a paper published April 2015 study by the Otto Brenner Foundation has Wolfgang Storz out that individual YouTube videos have on KenFM hits in the six figures, although this is a long duration would have and therefore would not be easy to consume. However, click rates can be manipulated, so such data and measurements can only provide a rough guide to the response to the offer.

According to Lutz Hachmeister from 2017, KenFM is "one of the most successful crowdfunded media portals in Germany". Its YouTube channel has more viewers than the WDR's YouTube channel and more likes on Facebook than the ARD's Facebook page .

According to Erik Peter, the offer is spread “especially in so-called Truther circles who believe that they are being systematically lied to by governments and the media”.

According to ZDF research, videos by KenFM and Ernst Wolff were "shared on Facebook by a large number of obscure conspiracy sites immediately after they appeared". The Austrian research portal Addendum calculated that conspiracy-theoretical content generally generates more user interaction on YouTube. The crowdtangle data would have confirmed this for Facebook too. However, bot networks and fake accounts could not be detected. The networking of ideologues, however, ensures reach. It shows “that behind viral successes there is often hard work and networks that have grown over a long period of time and that distribute this content on command. The ideologues' endless calls to share their videos work with this audience. Ken Jebsen was able to achieve almost two million views on Youtube within 48 hours ”. This means that alternative media sometimes outperform “professional journalistic media”. This corresponds to the business model of the platforms that reward “virality and committed users”. In the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, KenFM came seventh in the ranking of the top-selling news apps in Germany in June 2020.

Program formats and guests

Program formats

The internet portal offers u. a. the following shipment formats:

  • KenFM talking , video - interviews with people from business and politics
  • KenFM on the phone , phone interviews about current events
  • KenFM via , audio contributions
  • Me, myself and Media , video contributions on media-critical topics
  • Thinking , reflecting on topics of your own choosing
  • The Wolff of Wall Street , presentations by Ernst Wolff on economic issues

Interview guests

Interview guests included a. Christian Blex , Reiner Braun , Mathias Bröckers , Michael Buback , Andreas von Bülow , Daniela Dahn , Diether Dehm , Jürgen Elsässer , Bernd Erbel , Daniele Ganser , Peter Gauweiler , Wolfgang Gehrcke , Stefanie Heinzmann , Christoph Hörstel , Hans Jürgen Krysmanski , Anselm Lenz , Karin Mölling , Albrecht Müller , Jürgen Roth , Werner Rügemer , Micaela Schäfer , Paul Schreyer , Detlef Soost , Holger Strohm , Rita Süssmuth , Jan Ullrich , Udo Ulfkotte , Frieder Wagner , Willy Wimmer , Gerhard Wisnewski , Wolfgang Wodarg , René Zeyer and Moshe Zuckermann .

In August 2019 it became known that the former German ambassador to Iran, Bernd Erbel , will not take over the management of the Iran payment company Instex as planned . Erbel gave “personal reasons” as the reason for not showing up. According to media reports, Erbel had previously conducted two interviews with Ken Jebsen on KenFM and is said to have represented positions critical of Israel.

After Wolfgang Wodarg , doctor and until then board member of Transparency International Germany , KenFM and other alternative media, gave an interview, the Transparency board unanimously decided to suspend Wodarg's membership in March 2020. "These media, which regularly work with conspiracy theories, with anti-democratic and, in some cases, anti-Semitic prejudices, [...] are so far removed from the democratic convictions and principles of our association that any cooperation with them is forbidden", so the reasoning of the Transparency- Chairman Hartmut Bäumer .

Reception and criticism

KenFM is considered by various sources, even before 2011, as a medium for spreading conspiracy theories. The media scientist John David Seidler classifies Jebsen's remarks on the collapse of World Trade Center 7 as a "classic argument" of the conspiracy-theoretical " MIHOP theory ". With reference to video clips by representatives of the 9/11 Truth Movement , Jebsen suggests that the building was blown up, the collapse of the building was covered up by the “ mainstream media ” and the “truth” about 9/11 by the repression of journalists “Been suppressed. Jebsen was not one of the “9/11 activists of the first hour”, rather he was “part of a 'second wave' of the 9/11 conspiracy theories that corresponded to the tenth anniversary of the attacks”. The editor Camilla Kohrs from the research portal Correctiv describes Jebsen as a “conspiracy theorist with a mission”. His political positions overlapped with those of the alternative for Germany , although Jebsen repeatedly criticized new right-wing positions, in particular the “agitation against Muslims and refugees”.

The journalist Philipp Löpfe noticed the markedly Russia-friendly reporting at KenFM. According to political scientist Markus Linden , he appears “as an anti-American preacher”. On KenFM he conducts “sermon-like monologues or long interviews with alternative war reporters, renegade or marginalized politicians and conspiracy theorists.” With “messianic zeal” he castigates “supposedly US and financial market controlled German politics”. In an article for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Linden came to the following conclusion: KenFM has meanwhile "developed into an established brand". For example, Jebsen once gave himself in various roles "the image of the peace-moving, America-critical quick-talker with great doubts about the official version of September 11th and other hegemonic discourses about world events" z. B. at lectures or at rallies. In his format “Me, Myself and Media” he gives “the critic of the exercise of media power qua opinion making”.

According to Linden, the KenFM portal does not fit into the “image of an 'alt-right', an alternative right”. What KenFM, on the other hand, shares with the “digital underground” is “the anti-attitude towards the establishment, as is typical of the ' populist zeitgeist' ( Cas Mudde ). A political and media class is constructed as an enemy image. ”As a result, in Jebsen's program KenFM,“ the population appears as a mass of those duped and lied to. ”Political scientist Martin Höpner points out that Jebsen repeatedly pleads for openness and humanity when accepting refugees . The classification of his portal as “ new law ”, as it is done by authors mostly from the anti-German spectrum, is wrong and defamatory.

For the journalist Hendrik Steinkuhl, the accusation that Jebsen is an “anti-Semite” does not stand up to “closer examination”. However, this makes it easy for his critics to "consolidate their prejudice, because in his ongoing criticism of Israeli politics" Jebsen "linguistically regularly overshoots the target". However, he had “credibly apologized” for “such derailments”. According to Steinkuhl, it is even more “absurd” to put Jebsen “in the corner of the New Right”, as Kohrs did. Jebsen does not meet any of the relevant criteria for this assignment. On the other hand, to call him “a conspiracy theorist” applies, Jebsen “therefore to be stamped and no further attention to his work” is however “unjustified”.

According to the former head of the Grimme Institute, Lutz Hachmeister , KenFM is “made absolutely professional both in terms of content and aesthetics” and “almost indistinguishable from comparable programs on linear television”. With such a program, Jebsen is one of the “pioneers” in Germany. Jebsen benefits from his “training in public broadcasting”. In contrast to Hachmeister, the journalist Matthias Holland-Letz doubts that KenFM should be acquitted of the charge of right-wing radicalism in view of the statements made in the program about refugees or democracy in Germany.

During the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany , various journalistic publications certified that the portal had spread conspiracy theories and false statements. The Correctiv research center also certified the portal to be a conspiracy-theoretical channel. Michael Butter from the University of Tübingen , who has the research focus on conspiracy theories, came to the same conclusion in 2018 in an article in the scientific journal Research and Teaching .

For Milosz Matuschek ( Swiss Month , NZZ ), the criticism of “conspiracy theorists” is primarily about the “image polishing of the media that the readers are losing”. The biggest "mistake" of Ken Jebsen was the three million clicks he got for his controversial video on YouTube. KenFM, as the largest alternative media portal in German-speaking countries, is also a competitor in a new industry. The narrowing of the debate space is "high risk to fatal". Classic journalism, too, cultivates its own "bullshit department" with the rainbow press, the headlines of which the citizen should swallow uncritically, without questioning the credibility of the press as a whole or even in parts. To denounce the concentration of power of Bill Gates in relation to the WHO is necessary and correct. "Anyone who lets the inquisitive reader starve to death by the long arm should not complain that they are satisfying their needs elsewhere."

Web links

Individual evidence

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