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.”