In September 2017, the German edition, "The Epoch Times Deutschland", which became Web-only in 2012, was described by online magazine "The China File" as being aligned with the German far-right, and attractive to supporters of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and the anti-immigrant group Pegida. Stefanie Albrecht, a reporter for the German broadcaster RTL who spent several days inside the Berlin office of "The Epoch Times" while investigating the far right, said that "The Epoch Times" staffers she met had no journalistic training and did not check facts, trusting instead in the alternative sources they consulted.