Censorship of Palestine: Is Tiktok paying the price for surge in pro-Palestinian content?
Censorship of Palestine: Is Tiktok paying the price for surge in pro-Palestinian content?
On 13 March, the US House voted to ban TikTok. Before we dive into the nitty gritty of its implications, let’s first revisit the role of social media platforms in carrying Palestinian news since October and how it’s all connected
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Does Tiktok have a significant amount of pro-Palestinian propaganda? I honestly don't know, I avoid that thing like a plague.
It has a lot of footage of the ruins and interviews with kids in Gaza. Which in turn has influenced the other kids on Tiktok.
Half of Gaza is under 18, it's really not surprising there are a lot of them with Tiktok accounts.
How do you feel about Facebook?
@WarmSoda um, the above wasn't my "feelings," it was a description of the content of TikTok based on observations.
My description of the content of Facebook is that it skews older, as well as boomers and gen X it has millennials who are fast ageing out of being a youth demographic.
Facebook is more text-heavy and link-based so its users are more likely to repost news and blog articles. Some of the boomers are not very media-savvy. Boomers also seem more likely to support Israel, I would link this to the fact they still consume network news.
Ignore this guy. He's a plug or just a normal useful idiot.
There's a trade war going on between the US and China, and it's important the US has people like him to muddy the waters.
It's raw footage, homie.
Drones don't spawn in air in real life, dude. So no, it's not raw foorage.
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Just so we're on the same page here - what exactly do you think raw footage means?
The complete unchanged footage. What do you think it means?
People, Palestinians - primary sources - post footage they film on the ground and send out via TikTok et al - that's raw footage. Like I'm still lost on what were you trying to say with that drone comment.
That doesn't quite track with this footage, unless the drone is Palestinian.
That's not mutually exclusive with being shot from a drone, though
Are you going to discredit footage shot from a video camera because "video cameras don't spawn in air in real life, dude"?
Also, while we're at it, what's your definition of "propaganda"?
Are you going to discredit footage shot from a video camera because “video cameras don’t spawn in air in real life, dude”?
I deem it questionable based on that. The internet is full of videos that are cut conveniently or shown without context in order to paint a dishonest picture.
Also, while we're at it, what's your definition of "propaganda"?
It seems like your definition is broad enough to render all potential forms of media as such, in which case it's not a very useful definition.