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TikTok likely helped far right in elections: researchers
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.
For their analysis, they created 30 fictitious TikTok profiles of users born in 2006 and living in Thuringia, Saxony, and Brandenburg, where regional elections were about to be held. At the same time, the researchers observed that the number of videos appearing in user feeds did not correlate with the total amount of content created by the parties. The AfD has been more active on TikTok than any other political party in the German parliament, according to a June 2024 study by the Anne Frank Educational Center.
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