Online brainwashing
The next generation of terrorists: how they are recruited via TikTok
The Villach attacker radicalized himself on TikTok; according to the police, he is a follower of a radical Islamic influencer. Within a few weeks, the 23-year-old had undergone online brainwashing. How does it work? Krone+ explains how radical Islamists use TikTok to convince young people of their ideology.
The knife attack in Villach, the prevented attack on the Taylor Swift concert at the Ernst Happel Stadium, the 14-year-old who was sentenced to two years in prison in October 2024 for a planned knife attack in Graz - groups such as Islamic State misuse the TikTok video platform to recruit young people for their purposes. Also in Austria.
This new form of radicalization, the "TikTok jihad", poses a huge challenge to security in Europe. A platform for harmless cat and dance videos has become a dangerous tool in just a few years. The Brandenburg Office for the Protection of the Constitution even sees TikTok as a "fire accelerator" for terror.
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