Germany goes to the polls today with a very real far right threat and facing the biggest stress test of foreign interference in a democracy yet.
Far right disinformation and influence operations have been coming at them from all angles- Russia, TikTok, Twitter, Musk, even the U.S. vice president has been having a go.
We can't really say this is a free and fair election, but keep everything crossed.
An analysis of political bias on algorithmic recommendations on social media in Germany shows a huge far right bias. In percentages-
78% on Tik Tok.
64% on Twitter.
59% on Meta.
This is in a country where support for the far right is at about 20%.
"The interference in the German elections by Elon Musk and Trump's Washington was no less radical and outrageous than that of Moscow."
Friedrich Merz,
Germany's new chancellor.
Still not a single word from Elon Musk about the German elections. Maybe it's the fact that the AfD who have been polling around 20% for a year, came in on around 20% in spite of all his efforts to manipulate the results.
He's not as influential as he thinks.
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Ericka Simone
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