A German party figured out how to radicalize your teenager in 46 minutes a day.
The AfD is clearly the strongest force on TikTok. Its official account has far more followers than those of the other major German parties combined. 14 to 19-year-olds are the main users of the social media platform TikTok, followed by those aged 20 and over. That is why the AfD is particularly popular with young voters there. How does the political party manage this? And what does this mean for the upcoming early federal election in February 2025? For the documentary, the team of authors researched undercover, created numerous fake accounts and delved deep into the bubble of AfD supporters. A dark world in which even official AfD party representatives flood TikTok with massive amounts of content and in which their right-wing extremist and anti-constitutional messages reach millions of young people. The AfD has understood how to use the time that young people statistically spend on TikTok per day for their indoctrination. And that could have fatal consequences.
Direction
Undercover filmmaking that actually risks something.
Editing
Tight 46 minutes that never lets you breathe.
Director
Christoph Kürbel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Germany's 'TikTok election' marks the first federal campaign where a major party's youth strategy is almost entirely platform-native, bypassing traditional media gatekeepers entirely.
The filmmakers' decision to create numerous fake accounts mirrors the very manipulation tactics they expose—raising unresolved questions about documentary ethics in the attention economy.
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