⭕️ Several users of the social media app #TikTok have noticed that any comment containing “Free Palestine” is being removed automatically. This comes with the news of the US trying to ban the app.
FBI Director Chris Wray claims that the app poses a national security risk, saying that Chinese companies are required to essentially “do whatever the Chinese government wants them to in terms of sharing information or serving as a tool of the Chinese government.” >>
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However, reporters and activists are saying that the TikTok ban is lagely about censoring Pro-Palestinian content.
In a conversation with the Jerusalem Post, Israeli Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli said “TikTok is better now than it was 10 months ago, but there is still a lot of work to do.”
Anti-Defamation League director Jonathan Greenblatt said in a recording in November 2023, “We really have a TikTok problem, a Gen Z problem.”
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He also adds that Israel is facing a “major generational problem” in the US and that “the numbers of young people who think that Hamas’, you know, massacre was justified is shockingly and terrifyingly high.”
A study by the Northeastern shows that pro-Palestinian posts on Tiktok significantly outnumber pro-Israeli posts.
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There are at least 170,430 pro-Palestinian posts, 8,843 pro-Israeli posts and 101,706 neutral or general posts. 236 million views for pro-Palestinian posts, 14 million for pro-Israeli posts and 492 million views for neutral or general posts.
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