From the fringes into mainstream politics: intermediary networks and movement-party coordination of a global anti-immigration campaign in Germany

Figures & data

Figure 1. Retweet activity of far-right networks following different phases of the Migrationspakt Stoppen campaign. Scales indicate number of retweets per day. N = 410,276 retweets for entire time period.

Note: due to the much higher retweet volumes of the 100 superspreader accounts, they are shown on a different scale on the right to provide perspective.

Figure 2. Total original tweets per day of the five actor networks, showing higher tweet than retweet levels by far-right media (RNIS). N = 69,361.

Note: due to the much higher tweet volumes of the 69 superspreader accounts, they are shown on a different scale on the right to provide perspective.

Figure 3. Volume of combined ‘migrationspakt’ tweets and retweets containing the term ‘stoppen’ in different intermediary networks N = 34,769.

Figure 4. Multi-platform representation of the ‘Migrationspakt’ issue and the ‘Stoppen’ campaign. Ns refer to number of posts across multiple platforms, including: YouTube, Twitter, and collections of far-right and mainstream media sites.

Note: superspreader activity not included here due to the enormous scale differences as represented in Figures 1–3.