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
so those people were deceived by tik tok? why didnt anybody tell them about it?
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.
No shit. Social media is spreading ruzzian propaganda like the plague.
And the people in power don’t seem to give a shit.
They might care more, if they understood any of it.
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.
What could there even be on the internet? They have much better things to do. Do y’all have exclusive clubs over there for rich white men to schmooze, and sit around in leather chairs smoking cigars?
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.
Right-wing answers are short, simple and spoken with certainty.
“Every problem out there has a very simple, but equally wrong solution”
Do Flat Earth and/or religious apologetics do well on TikTok?
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.
It’s good that some refute their points just for fun.
Of course younger generations are more likely to believe in pseudo science, they haven’t yet learned that they are bullshit. Once they get older and have more experience with detecting bullshit, it’s popularity should decline.
Maybe, but I think it will remain more popular than before. Let’s say there are 10% of people in any given group who would theoretically believe bullshit - the number is chosen randomly. Thanks to stuff like TikTok they are way more likely to come into contact with lots of different bullshit to believe in than ever before.
Kind of like how Republicans would be more popular if everyone would watch Fox News every day.
Wait, a Chinese government tool is spreading anti democracry propaganda?!?! SHOCKING!!
I 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.
Sum this up in 2 sentences. I’m trying to parse this and worry I’m getting the wrong impression.
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.
Yup, that’s how it begins. I hoped that the EU and the harsh WWII memories will make a difference
Not that I needed another reason to dislike TikTok but…
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.
So… wait. Everyone is back to hating TikTok again?
Was it ever any different? People who use it like it and people who don’t, hate it.
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?i am also german, i didnt get those right wing contents. which content are we talking about, by the way`?
have you examples?
Sorry 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
huh, that sure is wierd. i clicked the video on your link. i had the usual thing recommended: spaceships, farm machinery, how to play solo x on guitar, star trek and star wars news, and i had one anti afd video.
i assume the problem lies in what you watched and did before on the internet. google is very connected, you see. you get always more of the things you researched and watched.
i use firefox and have llots of various blockers and privacy stuff enabled, and turned off everything i could turn of in google and youtube, i mean, the datamining stuff.
It will likely also depend on where you live, i.e. city vs rural area.
for sure, I just recently also turned geo location stuff of, even camera and microphone. I read a couple of articles that mentioned various issues with third parties listening to words, and what ever whattsapp does, i dont even want to know.
i always said it was just conspiracy talk that this mirophone listens to us, but earnestly, why are so mamny apps connected to the microphone anyway?
well. I have to delete my google account sooner or later. getting worse and worse prices onlineshopping is also a huge concern.
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