Tag: TikTok
Netanyahu opens TikTok account, promotes COVID-19 vaccine
Moments after being the first Israeli to be inoculated against COVID-19 on Saturday night, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu joined TikTok by posting his first video outside the Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv where he received the vaccine.
“While...
US Army suspends officer for Holocaust joke on TikTok
The U.S. Army has suspended an officer who posted a video making a Holocaust joke to his more than 3 million subscribers on the video-sharing social-networking service TikTok.
“What’s a Jewish person’s favorite Pokémon character?” asks...
TikTok announces ‘zero tolerance’ for anti-Semitism, hate speech, bigotry
The video-sharing social-networking service TikTok has expressed that it has “a zero tolerance stance” on accounts linked to anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry.
“We have a zero tolerance stance on organized hate groups and those...
Auschwitz museum points out ‘hurtful and offensive’ Holocaust trend on TikTok
The museum at the former Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz called a trend on the video-sharing social-networking service TikTok in which young people portray themselves as victims of the Holocaust as “hurtful and offensive.”
“The ‘victims’...
After Knesset fiasco, Twitter still refuses to remove Iran leader’s account
Twitter is refusing to take down the account of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s account on the social-media platform, even though he posts tweets calling for the genocide of Israel and the Jewish...
New study reveals extreme anti-Semitism on TikTok
The social-media platform TikTok is a growing hotbed of extreme anti-Semitism, according to a new report.
Led by researchers Gabriel Weimann, a professor of communication at the University of Haifa and senior researcher at the...
Minnesota high-schoolers apologize for TikTok video mocking Auschwitz
Two high school students in Minnesota apologized for posting a clip on the popular video-sharing app that pokes fun at Jews who were sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp.
In the TikTok video titled “Me...
TikTok removes animated video depicting deadly attacks against Israelis
The popular video-sharing app TikTok deleted from its platform an animated video that glorifies Palestinian terror and features four real-life deadly attacks against Israelis.
Palestinian Media Watch drew attention to the clip last week. It reported on...