TikTok likely helped AfD in German Elections: Researchers | WION Race to Power

and moving on Germany's alternative for Germany party also known as the afd has become the first farri right party to win the German state election since 1945 the result has sent shock waves across Germany experts say that social media platform Tik Tok played a huge role in securing an afd Victory as per reports the party was twice as effective at reaching firsttime voters on the application than all other parties combined according to infr test demat a German polling company around 38% of Voters aged between 18 to 24 years of age voted for the afd experts say afd's popularity is due to its strong presence on the social media application Tik Tok according to a poll published in April afd is the most favored party among young people aged 14 to 29 double than what it was last year to analyze the relationship between Tik Tok and young voters the infra testd map team created 30 fake Tik Tok profiles of German users born in 2006 and living in turingia Saxony and Brandenburg they analyzed more than 75,000 videos that appeared in their feeds it was found that in the weeks leading up to the vote afd related content reached a much larger audience on Tik Tok than content related to other political parties in fact on average nine afd content with vide showed up per week as compared to just one video of other political parties at the same time researchers observed that the number of videos appearing in user feeds did not correlate with the total amount of content created by the parties experts say one reason could be that a network of well-connected right-wing influencers on Tik Tok shared afd content and helped amplify it another could be that the majority of afd candidates more than any other party are themselves active on the platform meanwhile it was found that the pro afd content on Tik Tok ranged from clips of political speeches to emotional videos on topics such as immigration and seemingly non-political content such as travel or cooking videos for all the latest news download the Von app And subscribe to our YouTube channel

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