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[Behind the Aegis]

Young Americans are turning against Israel — and you can thank TikTok

If you’re not worried about TikTok yet, you should be.

The conspiracy–superspreading platform is not just wreaking havoc on the self-esteem of young people and dominating hours of their day. There is also increasing evidence that the app, and the country behind it, deliberately funnels young Americans content specifically designed to foment geopolitical instability and anti-Israel sentiment.

A new report out today from the National Contagion Research Institute, which studies the spread of online hate, reveals substantial evidence that content on TikTok is “promoted or muted” depending on “whether it is aligned or opposed to the interests of the Chinese government.”

In other words, as one expert privately put it, China is using TikTok to protect their investments. And those investments include interests in Arab countries antagonistic to the Jewish state.

Journalists at The Wall Street Journal recently conducted an experiment signing up for TikTok accounts as a 13-year-olds and found that within hours, the app began feeding them apocalyptic, conspiratorial and “highly polarized content, reflecting often extreme pro-Palestinian or pro-Israel positions.” A majority of the posts shown “supported the Palestinian view,” the journalists said. Even after they put an account in restricted mode, “the account’s feed was almost entirely dominated by vivid images and descriptions of the conflict.”

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