Clickbait meets populism and extremism – TikTok and politics | DW Documentary

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1. Wenn ich für jede Minute, die ich auf YouTube verbringe, einen Rubel bekäme, hätte ich mir schon längst ein neues Telefon gekauft😚

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3. Never ask: a woman their age, a man their salary and DW why they never investigate left-wing extremism😅

4. ok

5. Memberberries 🫐

6. God these people they Interview are insufferable. They are so arrogant and self absorbed.

7. As an indigenous Mexican I can't blame them. Germany cares more about others than those who are foreign. The German government is to blame. I'd be xenophobic too if let's say White Europeans started to move to Mexico and the government was excusing their crimes and their sexual crimes. I'd feel as if they care more about foreigners than us.

8. Glad i dont have tiktok

9. I'm sorry to say but this is very poorly written and seems to be tendentious.

10. Social media is poison.

11. China is loving it !! Communism at it's best and you are the bait !

12. I consider myself centre-left to left-wing but I notice this video uses the term right-wing and far-right-wing interchangeably. The world is already polarized as it is, why conflate regular right-wing people with far-righters? In several instances something along the lines of "young people drifting to the right" is said. I don't think there is anything wrong with that in itself, I don't agree with most right-wing views, but it's a long way towards far-right extremism. Why not say "young people are drifting to the far-right", that is something that ís distressing. To me, this wording only fuels more polarization. Lots of quotes like these can be taken out of context and mis-used by the far-right, so good job..

    Also, like other commenters are saying in crude terms, it would be interesting to do a piece on the far-left. I'd like to see our loonies, because it's always smart to take a good look at yourself and see what criticism from the other side is valid and what isn't. Ignoring criticism from the other side of the aisle and just keep doing the same will only invite new critisism, and thát also contributes towards polarization. This generation only sends through Tik-Tok, both the left and right, not many actually bother to go into dialogue with each other.

13. I wont smile in Germany….Wait I was there in the 90's USAF and German's did not smile much..that was before Tik Tok…But Germans are serious people for the most part. Germans are great !

14. War never changes…..

15. Not just the UK then that gets called far right extremists

    Nothing to do with the logical conclusion that if all infrastructures are on their knees accepting an extra 100,000 a year from EU overspill may not keep people who can't get a dentist appointment or doctors appointment happy at least in my opinion

16. I think people generally are aware that you only find political propaganda and extremism on TikTok. If you find yourself unironically on the platform, it should give pause for introspective.

17. I think any sensible human finds it hilarious that you don’t understand why people are being drawn to the far right it’s quite simple. They’re the only party that has sensible policies for the natives of their own country if the left or center had done something sensible and you wouldn’t have any need for the far right

18. That is what happens when official networks ignore and vilify the views of large part of the centrist population.

19. I hope Germany do not get stupid again Bad for your health

20. Reawakening Martin Ruther' – The hope for Democracy on social media, every vote count!

21. The most easily manipulated among us will always be the weakest point in any democracy. Anybody who says they have a favourite influencer, is easily manipulated. Anybody who sees the world in binary terms is easily manipulated. Anybody who thinks that their emotions are a good replacement for rational thought, are easily manipulated. Most of us think we are immune to manipulation, but advertisers manipulate us every single day – and they've been doing so for so many decades now that most of us cannot truly recognise manipulation.

    It is a rocky road ahead of us and all we can do is arm ourselves with as much knowledge about manipulation methodologies as we can find.

22. Ironic as I saw another video that did a study on how each platform is perceived, and Tiktok was overwhelming liberal. Only X was seen as roughly equal amounts conservative and liberal

23. For me, nazi and woke ideologies are both used as closed systems and propaganda. How about saying no to both of these and build your own independent mind through research in books and critical thinking.

24. Why do you portray being right wing as a bad thing?

25. Populism = what the people want.

26. It's so funny to me that they take agency away from individuals on the right by saying that they have been brainwashed and radicalised. Which just shows how the left operate because that's how they think of people and how they do politics. When in reality, on the right they say what people are saying or thinking which is why they watch more of the same but on the left it's all about convincing people to have a different view to that of which they already have. This is why they attack Popularism and see the right as doing what they do. An algorithm that pushes what the user wants to see instead of what the platform wants the user to see creates a true representation of the beliefs of people and this exposes the issue with the left and left wing social media.

27. After seeing video tiktok etc… to understand it properly , u must read the book.

    Imagine thinking one's understand Shakespeare or lotr just by watching the movie😅😅😅

28. "nobody will touch my schnitzel!" 🤣☠️

29. Extremists are the point, lol. To be for or against any aspect of the modern world, you must be extreme.

30. tiktok is a brainwashing app

31. "Of course I make policies for minority groups."
    "Which ones?"
    "Germans, of course."
    Absolute legend.

32. TikTok is one app I'm so happy not to have.

33. Love how populism is portrayed as a bad thing.

34. It's interesting that people who get involved are later hired. And where does the money come from? The billionaire class? Russia? China? Obviously, they aren't getting lots of money from grassroots fundraising.

35. Youth generations are always inside all problems and difficulties wages in their's fatherland. They have ultra rights to condemning dangerous phenomena which attacking their's interests in their fatherland..Holocaust occurred during WW2, not nowadays… had not a relationship to AFD & and the right political wing in European countries demanding.. preserving European followers' interest, European cultural, streets security. ☪️ Islamophobia is a dangerous project and obvious phenomenon in European countries.. if European peoples attend or not

36. Short videos speak to the smallest brains. That is why AFD is so popular on this app.

37. Oh no it’s social media that’s is why the far right is rising! No it’s the far left politics which pushed people in that direction.

38. George Orwell's "The masses maintain the brand, the brand maintains the media, and the media controls the masses" no longer makes any sense in a world where algorithms create the masses and promote all kinds of brands without needing the old media. Media control was inefficient, porous, and open to criticism from within and without. Algorithms are very efficient, they exist and operate in an imperceptible environment, and criticizing them is useless because they only promote what can increase the wealth and power of their owners.