TikTok drängt junge deutsche Wähler in Richtung rechtsextremer Partei

By David Gilbert

Young Germans searching TikTok for parties and candidates were disproportionately served content related to the the far-right Alternative for Germany, says a new report shared exclusively with WIRED.

The report was written by researchers from the nonprofit organization AI Forensics and Interface, a European think tank specializing in information technology. Researchers found that in a quarter of cases, young users in Germany searching on the app for specific political parties and their politicians in the weeks leading up to the vote on June 5 were instead given suggestions for other parties. In the majority of these cases, they were given suggestions linked to Alternative for Germany (AfD), Germany’s leading far-right party.

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Just Tik Tok? Or did many take a look around and decide maybe Germany needed a change?