![]() Pre-pandemic, the biggest far-right figures had around 40,000 followers, he says. But during the pandemic, far-right follower numbers exploded in Germany, says Jakob Guhl, a research manager at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), a nonprofit that analyzes online extremism. Researchers have complained about extremists on Telegram for years. ![]() ![]() A more recent January survey by the official Federal Network Agency found 16 percent of people who regularly use online messenger services use Telegram-a 6 percent gain from 2019 (although still far below the most popular service, WhatsApp, which claimed a 93 percent share). Around 7.8 million people in the country used the app in 2019, according to Statista. Telegram is one of Germany’s most popular online messengers.
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