Along with gender, migration and economic problems, social media is playing a role. Platforms like Techtok allow political groups to ignore mainstream, conventional media, which faces remote enmity.
Mauritius Dorn, from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), says that when AFD “dominates” AFD Techtok compared to other German parties. It has 539,000 followers in his parliamentary account, while 158,000 for the SPD, which currently has the highest number of seats in the German parliament.
Mr Dorn says that not just government accounts, but “a large number of non -governmental fans’ accounts also helps spread party content”.
By setting up 10 “personality -based” accounts with different user profiles, they found, “those users who are more on the right -wing spectrum … see a lot of AFD content while the leftist spectrum users a political See the content.
Techtok has said that he does not “distinguish” between the right, left or center of politics and works to stay “at the forefront of” dealing with false information.
Dorne has observed that other parties recognized sites like TaTcok “too late”, which means they are playing a catch -up on the platform for setting a strong toe mark.
We have met with an AFD influxy, Selena Brechessi – a 25 -year -old trickker with more than 167,000 followers – 53 % of whom are men, between 18 and 35.
She mainly shares dancing, trends and lifestyle videos, but also supporting AFD supporters.
