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A viral song by two Russian schoolgirls, which recently made it into Billboard’s top ten dance hits, has been branded a “Russian trope” used for spreading propaganda on social media by a member of the European Parliament for the Volt Germany party, Nela Riehl.
Riehl, a teacher-turned-politician from Hamburg, addressed the alleged dangers of the song ‘Sigma Boy’ during a session of parliament in December, but her claims did not receive public attention until earlier this week after she posted her speech on Instagram.
“’Sigma Boy’ is a viral Russian trope used on social media, which communicates patriarchal and pro-Russian worldviews,” Riehl claimed, addressing the parliament. She went on to explain that the song is popular with teenagers and is “only one example of Russian infiltration of popular discourse through social media.”
According to Riehl, “Russia has understood how to embed” its ideas into society, and is doing so by targeting young Ukrainians and changing “the stories Ukrainians are telling their own society” through influencers and viral tropes, such as ‘Sigma Boy’, apparently.
“Last week, Ukraine’s minister of culture pointed out to me that cultural heritage does not only include history books and also museums, but Ukrainian language, music and also current Ukrainian influencers. Russia targets this all,” she said, calling on the EU “to stand in strong support and target even these subtle infiltrations and falsifications.”
It is unclear what falsifications the MEP had in mind. During the same session, she also raised the question of how social media platforms affect young people, as they are where most of them gather information about a range of topics, including politics…
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