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Drilling a Telegram-YouTube Pipeline: Cross-Platform Affordances of German Anti-Government Extremist Networks

Leoni Heyn Orcid Logo, Joe Whittaker Orcid Logo

Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Pages: 1 - 28

Swansea University Author: Joe Whittaker Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/1057610x.2025.2595842

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This study examines social media platforms in the mobilization and convergence of German Anti-Government Extremist (AGE) networks Querdenken and Reichsbürger in the lead-up to their coup-attempt in December 2022. Using a longitudinal URL analysis of 785,865 Telegram messages from August to December...

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Published in: Studies in Conflict & Terrorism
ISSN: 1057-610X 1521-0731
Published: Informa UK Limited 2025
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70996
Abstract: This study examines social media platforms in the mobilization and convergence of German Anti-Government Extremist (AGE) networks Querdenken and Reichsbürger in the lead-up to their coup-attempt in December 2022. Using a longitudinal URL analysis of 785,865 Telegram messages from August to December 2022, we assess how platform affordances shape inter-group interactions across the digital ecosystem. Our findings reveal two distinct yet interdependent platform usage patterns, with both milieus relying heavily on instant messaging and video platforms. The “Telegram-YouTube pipeline” emerges as a key structure for mobilization and radicalization, demonstrating how affordances of different platform types function to sustain inter-group engagement.
College: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Funders: The authors would like to thank the Institute for Security Policy at the University of Kiel for enabling the open access publication of this article through their generous financial support.
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End Page: 28

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