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The Israel-Palestine conflict is playing a part in this. Israel has had a hard time controlling the narrative on Tiktok as organic support has stemmed from vide
by CommanderData 3y ago
The Israel-Palestine conflict is playing a part in this. Israel has had a hard time controlling the narrative on Tiktok as organic support has stemmed from videos from Gaza. Especially amoung teens.
Israel has even gone to lengths to purchase advertisement slots on major platforms showing high budget propaganada. Once it's under US ownership they wll no longer have this issue.
- alephnerd 3y agoThe current action occured when TikTok pushed users to call Congressional Members through anti-patterns within the app [0] Not everything is about Israel-Palestine smh. [0] - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/business/tiktok-phone-calls-congress.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/business/tiktok-phone-cal...
- dralley 3y agoTo that point: Congressional staffers were posting on twitter that they were getting flooded by phone calls from 10-12 year olds
- prosody 3y agoThis seems like confused causality. The ban bill was put forward and passed because TikTok asked their users to contact their representatives and share their opinion about the ban bill?