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.
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?
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.
the rich and powerfull dont want to give the poor people money. if the poor people had money, they would't worry about their future existance and fall prey to manipulation.
The 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.
Cold start is a hard problem for recommendations. It probably shows what's popular in the nearby locations and/or matching demographics. Why's it not normal?
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
Unfortunately 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.
It'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.
Yeah, here in Germany, most politicians don't really like to engage with digital topics at all and flat out refuse to use the internet. Which explains why my country has the worst internet in Western Europe by far.
It'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.
Kind 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.
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.