“Massive threat”: Faeser forgets TikTok in plan against right-wing extremism. “Democrats have to get ahead of the wave instead of constantly chasing technological progress and the instrumentalization of enemies of democracy,” says Özgür Özvatan.

The AfD fills this niche on TikTok and now has a 72 percent market share there. The special thing about TikTok is that even accounts with few followers can generate visibility very quickly thanks to the algorithm. They ariseTikTok trends, i.e. content that generates high interaction rates.