Manova News, formerly branded Rubikon, is a German online blog described to be following the Querfront strategy as well as spreading conspiracy ideologies.
In the early days of the blog, some authors supported Rubikon as an independend media outlet to amplify progressive discourse within German society.
Das Ganze hängt folglich ganz vom Goodwill des Herausgebers und Geschäftsführers ab, der sich gleichzeitig den Posten des Chefredakteurs zugedacht hat“ ("Shareholder, publisher, managing director, editor-in-chief.
[7] In the first few years after its founding, Rubikon quickly developed into a medium in which crude political theses were disseminated with the impetus to represent suppressed opinions.
[10] Roger Schawinski calls it an „Internetportal mit Verschwörungstheoretiker-Groove“ ("Internet portal with a conspiracy theorist groove").
[11] According to Erik Peter from taz, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Rubikon became a platform for the conspiracy scene in Berlin that negated the danger of the virus.