Part of the reluctance in setting up comment sections in general is that media orgs are liable for postings there and manual moderation costs a lot of money, unless you outsource that to underpaid, traumatized semi-slaves as Facebook does.
These comments aren't even linked from the articles on the tagesschau.de website.
> Part of the reluctance in setting up comment sections in general is that media orgs are liable for postings there and manual moderation costs a lot of money.
Whatever makes media orgs reluctant to have a comment section (and to show it prominently) also applies to any other public space, so if they can't even handle that, there's no point in having initiatives to think about other public spaces.