Commentary:
Berghof’s entry into conspiracy-literacy work reframes education and peace as cognitive hygiene. Toolkits and TikTok explainers shift attention from political grievances around inequality and foreign policy to the presumed gullibility of youth and parents. Because nearly all financing comes from federal, Demokratie Leben! or corporate social responsibility budgets, threat definitions track official headaches: right-wing populism and so forth. But its standards are absurd. For instance, among the examples its #vrschwrng Interactive Toolkit against Conspiracy Theories gives for anti-semitism are simple mentions of "globalists" and "criticism of Israel"; another module offers "showing a video" of a "demonstration against coronavirus measures" as an example calling for correction. Meanwhile, platform design, belligerent state-administered misinformation or indeed official criminality and corruption go unmentioned. A TikTok project, funded by a luxury-car brand eager to polish its ESG credentials, illustrates the merging of corporate image management with civic pedagogy. Berghof’s conflict-resolution pedigree lends moral authority, but its media-literacy curriculum is heavy on paternalism and often rallies to the defense of an indefensible status quo.