Posts Tagged: TikTok antisemitism
Jewish TikTok Employees Open Up About Antisemitism From Colleagues, Lack of Support From Management
Current Jewish and Israeli employees of TikTok opened up this week about facing antisemitism at the Chinese-owned social media company following the Hamas terrorist attacks...
Jewish Celebrities, Influencers Tell TikTok Executives in Private Video Call ‘Shame On You’
More than a dozen Jewish TikTok influencers and celebrities addressed the uptick in antisemitic harassment on the short-form video app during a private video call...
Jewish Content Creators Say TikTok ‘Not Safe’ for Jews, Ask for Help Against Online Antisemitism
Jewish social media influencers wrote in a new open letter to TikTok that it is "not doing enough" to combat antisemitism and online hatred on...
‘Hate Is More Engaging’: Researchers Make Headway Measuring Antisemitic Propaganda on Social Media
The year-long lockdown brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 cemented the place of social media as the main channel for the spread of...
Antisemitism Up Over 900 Percent on Social Media Giant TikTok, Finds University of Haifa Study
Antisemitic activity on the hugely popular social media app TikTok has skyrocketed over the past year, a new study by the University of Haifa revealed. TikTok...
TikTok Faces Calls to Address Report of ‘Disturbing’ Censorship of Jewish Users
The head of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) strongly criticized the social media app TikTok on Monday over a report that it has regularly censored Jewish...
TikTok-Inspired ‘Attack-a-Jew’ Posts Are a Continuation of Everything That’s Come Before
JNS.org - In recent weeks, there has been an alarming number of violent attacks on visibly religious Israelis. While not original, these seemingly random incidents...
Social Media Star Baby Ariel Calls on 50 Million Followers to ‘#SmashHate’ in New Campaign Against Antisemitism and Racism
Baby Ariel, a social media superstar with over 35 million followers on TikTok and 9 million on Instagram, called on her many young fans to...
US Army Chiefs Poised to Dismiss 2nd Lieutenant Whose Holocaust Joke Went Viral
An army lieutenant who joked about the Holocaust on social media app TikTok is facing discharge from the service following an official disciplinary probe into...
TikTok Tells Knesset: Antisemitism ‘Has No Place on Our Platform’
i24News - TikTok told Israeli ministers they were committed to stopping antisemitism on their platform on Wednesday, according to a government press release. A representative met...
TikTok Announces ‘Zero Tolerance’ for Antisemitism, Hate Speech, Bigotry
JNS.org - The video-sharing social network service TikTok has expressed that it has “a zero tolerance stance” on accounts linked to antisemitism and other forms...
Antisemitic and Hateful Content Flourishing on TikTok, New ADL Report Warns
The video-sharing app TikTok has become a magnet for extremists who spread antisemitic and racist content to recruit new followers, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) warned...
Report: TikTok Removes Group of Videos That Mocked Holocaust Victims
The TikTok social media network has deleted a group of videos using an antisemitic song that garnered more than 6.5 million views, the BBC reported. The...
‘The Dark Side of TikTok’: How the Newest Social Media Platform Lets Antisemitism Run Wild
CTech - TikTok might be the latest social media platform to catch the attention of young people everywhere, but reports of antisemitism and racist content...
