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Anti-Semitic content on TikTok surges 912%, new study reveals
Yedioth Ahronoth ^ | 07.12.21, 19:41 | TPS

Posted on 07/18/2021 11:48:23 PM PDT by Olog-hai

TikTok has become a hotbed for anti-Semitism, a new study revealed, with an alarming 912% spike in anti-Semitic content shared on the popular video-sharing platform over the past year.

The study, led by Dr. Gabriel Weimann, a professor of communication at the University of Haifa, in conjunction with Natalie Masri, a research assistant at the IDC Herzliya’s Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT), discovered what they described as “a seismic increase” in anti-Semitic tropes, images and rhetoric compared to their 2020 study.

At the end of a four-month systematic content analysis of videos, comments and usernames on the platform, researchers found a 41% increase in anti-Semitic posts and a 1,375% uptick in usernames with anti-Semitic titles, such as @holocaustwasgood or @eviljews.

TikTok is one of the most rapidly growing social media platforms online and attracts mostly young people as 41% of its 1.2 billion users are aged 16–24. TikTok's popularity, exposure, and openness are taken advantage of by many extremist, racist, and radical groups including neo-Nazis and anti-Semites, the study notes. […]

Some examples of problematic content include a video featuring a succession of young users giving Nazi salutes; another video showing text that reads, “I have a solution; a final solution,” referring to the Holocaust; depictions of Jews with long, hooked noses; and many other hurtful images and texts dismissing the gravity of the Holocaust. …

(Excerpt) Read more at ynetnews.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; china; redchina; tiktok

1 posted on 07/18/2021 11:48:23 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

ChiComs have no sensitivity to anti-Semitism.


2 posted on 07/18/2021 11:57:27 PM PDT by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Olog-hai

Next week’s news: TikTok was quickly shut down by a virus yesterday...


3 posted on 07/19/2021 3:19:49 AM PDT by struggle
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To: ifinnegan

I wouldn’t be surprised if China is behind this. They’re supporting Iran.


4 posted on 07/19/2021 5:28:26 AM PDT by cpt_dave
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To: Olog-hai

China is not bound by white guilt rules. I would love to see how much anti-white male hatred has increased.


5 posted on 07/19/2021 5:49:18 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: Olog-hai

I don’t trust this any more than media reports on how “online racism” jumped 3471% or such when Trump was president.


6 posted on 07/19/2021 6:12:26 AM PDT by Demiurge2 (Define your terms!)
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To: Demiurge2

79% of all statistics are made up on the spot.


7 posted on 07/19/2021 6:12:49 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ifinnegan
Well, no. They got that from their ideological forefather:
What is the secular basis of Judaism? Practical need; self-interest. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly god? Money.

Very well, then! Emancipation from huckstering and money—consequently from practical, real Judaism—would be the self-emancipation of our time. …
Like Marx himself, the Chicoms would share the belief that Jews need to be “emancipated” from what they claim to be “real Judaism” and all “reactionaries” disposed of.
8 posted on 07/19/2021 10:00:18 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Demiurge2

You don’t believe TikTok, a Chicom creation, would allow this?


9 posted on 07/19/2021 10:01:00 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Organic Panic

What does antisemitism have to do with “white guilt”?


10 posted on 07/19/2021 10:01:23 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

“What does antisemitism have to do with “white guilt”?”

The Chinese will allow anything on their platform as long as it doesn’t upset the CCP.


11 posted on 07/19/2021 10:53:23 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: Organic Panic

That evades the “white guilt” thing, aside from the fact that the Chinese aren’t white. How is antisemitism associated with “white guilt”?

Never mind antisemitism being part and parcel of Marxism anyhow, which I outlined in post #8.


12 posted on 07/19/2021 11:39:07 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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