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TikTok Says It’s Not Censoring ‘Free Palestine’ Comments. Users See Something Different (www.404media.co)
submitted 1 month ago by PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat to c/fediverse_vs_disinfo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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This is important, in part, because some of the pro-TikTok shills were claiming the US government wanted to censor TikTok because people we able to learn the truth about Palestine from it.

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/antisemitism-conspiracy-theories-tiktok/678088/

[–] SteveKLord@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's behind a paywall so I can't read it. I never said "the Jews" were taking it away. I mentioned one group that is a known lobbiest group with examples. I love Jewish people and the ADL and does not speak for all of them in any way. This is the "weaponization" I'm referring to . You are free to disagree but it's just lazy logic to call it a "conspiracy theory" just because you do.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s behind a paywall so I can’t read it.

Okay. It is far better researched and more well-spoken than I feel like being, to address what you are saying.

Carroll’s TikTok bio says “do your own research,” and he certainly had research to share. “The censorship is not about China on TikTok,” he explained. Rather, “as a TikTok creator who gets censored all the frickin’ time, I can tell you that the things you get censored about are the CIA and Israel.” Carroll did not address why Israel would go through so much trouble to acquire TikTok if it already controlled the platform, or why the Semitic censors somehow missed his video and its more than 1 million views, not to mention the several similarly viral follow-ups he posted.

In truth, far from suppressing such content, TikTok’s algorithm happily promotes it. I purposely viewed the videos for this piece while logged out of the platform, and it nonetheless began suggesting to me more material along these lines through its sidebar recommendations.

And so on.

[–] SteveKLord@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 month ago

One thing I can agree, the censorship and repression has nothing to do with China. The article erroneously uses the term "Semitic" btw and many of the students I was referring to are Jewish. This says nothing new. Just opinions, which are not facts. It's no conspiracty theory that Meta's board has many former Israeli intelligence agents on it since you've mentioned them. Perhaps you should do a bit more research. And so on.