[kriro]

Der Westen/WAZ is usually pretty credible.

However I think it's likely that they misconstructed the story (not on purpose but because they made some bad assumptions). Pretty likely that this is yet another "routine check sniffing through social media etc. after the person acted suspicious in some way" ... which in itself is noteworthy but pretty different.

Not unlikely that the sources reported the story a tad wrong.

[lukashed]

I don't agree on the credibility part. In my opinion they quite often write sensational judgemental stories, at least on local topics.

Also they rarely indicate their sources. Same with this article. No source, nothing.

If a viral story (though there's no direct mention of Prism, the NSA etc, the 'related articles' are all about this and it's clear that it's the same topic) was their aim: Mission accomplished. Not only the massive traffic from HN, but also more than 3 times as many Facebook shares for this article as the next-most-shared-one.

There are some critical comments on the site, which are blocked and removed quickly by the moderators (have seen this a couple of times now).