The Reconquista Germanica (RG) is an extreme-right channel running on the Discord application, which was set up to disrupt the German election of 2017.
Other strategies used in social media include representing oneself as a refugee or to pretend publicly that there is no longer a war in Syria.
[5] The RG vets potential members carefully through several layers of interviews and social media background checks to weed out spies, however the organization was infiltrated by the NGO Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD).
[7] Further, German broadcaster ARD has documented organizational links between AfD youth organization "Junge Alternative" and the RG.
[8] The self-proclaimed "Commander-in-Chief" of RG, who uses the code name "Nikolai Alexander", has acknowledged close connections with Russia, and stated the group would not have been possible in its actual form without Russian assistance.