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Wednesday, December 13, 2023

TikTok isn’t creating false support for Palestine. It’s just reflecting what’s already there.

The Israel-Hamas war changed the way we engage online, maybe forever. 

By Rebecca Jennings

@rebexxxxa Dec 13, 202 

 "To claim that TikTok is intentionally spoon-feeding pro-Palestine videos to young people is to misunderstand what TikTok is, who uses it, and what those people are already more likely to believe. Of TikTok’s estimated 80 million US monthly active users, about 60 percent are between the ages of 16 to 24, and another 26 percent are between 25 and 44. It is an app dominated by young people, and young people happen to sympathize with Palestine."  ... READ MORE

https://www.vox.com/culture/23997305/tiktok-palestine-israel-gaza-war

[AS ALWAYS PLEASE GO TO THE LINK TO READ GOOD ARTICLES or quotes IN FULL: HELP SHAPE ALGORITHMS (and conversations) THAT EMPOWER DECENCY, DIGNITY, JUSTICE & PEACE... and hopefully Palestine]

wizard_bisan1  in the rubble of Gaza & on instagram

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