TikTok likely helped far right in German elections: analysts
TikTok likely helped far right in German elections: analysts
The AfD was twice as effective at reaching first-time voters on the app than all other parties combined, according to an analysis of platform data. This may explain why the party performed so well among young voters.
The AfD was twice as effective at reaching first-time voters on the app than all other parties combined, according to an analysis of platform data. This may explain why the party performed so well among young voters.
Same shit happened here in Finland too, our extremist right wing party is very active on TikTok and the under 25's voted for them in droves. That generation is more conservative than Millennials or even younger Gen X, which is a bit fucked up. Especially young men and boys have gone off the deep end
110Unfortunately true for a lot of European countries. It's easy to post a 20 second video about "foreigners bad" and kids with the attention span of a gnat will eat it right up. A longer video that explains why things really are the way they are will get swallowed by the algorithm. It just amplifies populism and outrage and will be one of the great hurdles to overcome this century.
59so those people were deceived by tik tok? why didnt anybody tell them about it?
1It's the same everywhere because the far right are actively trying to manipulate people and get then into "the pipeline" while the left don't have a coordinated propaganda campaign.
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No shit. Social media is spreading ruzzian propaganda like the plague.
And the people in power don’t seem to give a shit.
89It's quite logical even. Right-wing answers are short, simple and spoken with certainty. That's great for a half-minute clip. Answers grounded in reality are complex, require proof and have some uncertainty. That's not gonna fit in there, or, at the very least, you need an outstanding communicator.
No matter the age, most people stick just with what they hear most often.
47Right-wing answers are short, simple and spoken with certainty.
"Every problem out there has a very simple, but equally wrong solution"
13Do Flat Earth and/or religious apologetics do well on TikTok?
7Kind of? I remember a statistic about pseudo-science being more popular with younger generations. Energy healing, healing stones and all that other homeopathic bullshit. Assuming that is indeed correct, Flat Earth is likely more popular too.
It probably does okay simply by virtue of being so stupid, there aren't many people in their right mind producing videos about the earth being round to drown them out.
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Wait, a Chinese government tool is spreading anti democracry propaganda?!?! SHOCKING!!
28Bad headline. Should have titled as 'AfD is better at promotion on tiktok' or something of that sort
25exactly. even i can make videos in tik tok for my "ritalin is better than alcohol " party. takes 5 minutes.
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One reason could be that a network of well-connected right-wing influencers on TikTok share AfD content and help amplify it, according to Verwiebe. Another could be that the majority of AfD candidates, more than any other party, are themselves active on the platform.
I have another: It's in the financial interest of Tiktok to promote an extremist party with extreme neoliberal views in order to make more profit.
20I live over there, so :
young people are not the voting demographic, give me a break.
as if all those village inbreds aged 30 - 90 would go on tik tok.
and IF all these people ware watching nazi ads on tik took:
so what? they certainly don't read the newspapers, and the democratic partys won't try to make them better offerings anyway. because all these convincing offerings would consist of more infrastructure, more public transport, more wages, better future prospects. and what have you.
but thats far to expensive, and is not at all what the democartic centrist parties are doing right know. so they CAN'T bring the voter better arguments and offerings.
12young people are not the voting demographic
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If only it was limited to TikTok. YouTube always recommends me those right shit videos, just because I'm german. (And no, it's not personalization. I've turned that off, and it seems to work, YouTube doesn't recommend me anything similar to the stuff that I actually watch.)
And if I didn't know that and how those right populists want to manipulate me, I would have long been radicalized already. There are just too many gullible people. Ads work for them, classical populism works for them, they give nigerian princes their money, they believe in superstition, why would anyone think voters were suddenly at least borderline resistent against populism?6i am also german, i didnt get those right wing contents. which content are we talking about, by the way`?
have you examples?
2Sorry for the late answer. Somehow I got a bad case of demo effect.
For example, under this video I'm getting recommendations such as:
Spoiler
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Not that I needed another reason to dislike TikTok but...
4The chairwoman for the AfD, Alice Weidel, worked for the Bank of China. It would not surprise me if she used her connections with the CCP and TikTok to persuade the fucking idiots in Thüringen.
2So… wait. Everyone is back to hating TikTok again?
1Was it ever any different? People who use it like it and people who don't, hate it.
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