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

Many liberal democracies have witnessed the rise of radical right parties and movements that threaten values tolerance inclusion. Extremist movement factions may promote inflammatory ideas engage broader publics, but party leaders face dilemmas endorsing content from extremist origins. However, when is shared over larger intermediary networks aligned supporters media sites, it become laundered or disconnected its original sources so can play back as official communication. With a dynamic network analysis various-time series we tracked flows German version global far-right anti-immigration campaign across different platforms, including YouTube, Twitter, collections mainstream sites. The shows how small Identitarian Movement spread expanding low-level activists Alternative for Germany alternative That bridging enabled leadership to launder source roll out own campaign. As result, national attention became directed ideas.