European regulator Thierry Breton shared a stern letter to TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew on Thursday, claiming his office has “indications” that the platform is being used to distribute disinformation and illegal content around the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.
Breton serves as the European commissioner for the internal market. He said TikTok must be “timely, diligent and objective” about removing misinformation, particularly since minors often turn to the platform as a source of news.
Breton issued similar letters to X owner Elon Musk and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg this week.
“First, given that your platform is extensively used by children and teenagers, you have a particular obligation to protect them from violent content depicting hostage taking and other graphic videos which are reportedly widely circulating on your platform, without appropriate safeguards,” Breton wrote in the letter.
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Ie. one of the things they’re asking TikTok to not show children, is videos of Hamas taking hostages. Videos which would in fact help Israel’s case, not hurt it.
Look, don’t take this the wrong way, but when was the last time you read a full article and not just a summary?
Because it sounds like you may be functionally illiterate, given you jumped to the wrong conclusion so easily. Perhaps spend a little less time on the phone and social media, and more time reading full length articles or maybe a book or two. You’re certainly not alone in this, it’s a rising and worrying phenomenon, but something you personally can actually do something about.
That isn’t misinformation
Sometimes I wish it wouldn’t let you reply until a certain amount of time after you’ve clicked an article. Because I feel like a lot of people just jump right into the comments and start talking without reading.
I’m sure some people are too lazy and comment before reading, but I think there’s a more frightening possibility. That they have read the article, but still post these comments.
There’s research that suggests increasing numbers of people can’t read that well anymore. Sure, they can read and write, but they’re unable to concentrate long enough to read a longer article and easily gloss over seemingly unimportant details.
I don’t know if it’s education or too much time spent on a phone, but if this is the case it’s a genuine worry. If people zone out when reading an article, they’re far easier to manipulate and more likely to buy disinformation.
“Think of the children” is the ultimate bullshit excuse when it comes to censorship by authoritarians, be they liberal, conservative, moderate, or anarchistic.
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there are no liberal or conservative authoritarians. there is only one time of authoritarian even if they act like they either either liberal or conservative
Horseshoe theory is not a useful method of political analysis, nor is the left-right spectrum it is founded on.
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Authoritarian comes in many flavors, and they all have different paths they take that end up with the same result, consistently increasing oppression of personal freedoms in the name of various types of safety or morality or justice or ethics. Anyone can adopt authoritarian ideals if they get to comfortable repeating rhetoric without applying any thoughtful considerations.
Horseshoe theory is something for people who refuse to actually educate themselves on ideology. Often espoused by ignorant people who are so thoroughly de-politicized that they think they have no ideology, never noticing that that thought it itself is something only someone extremely ideologically captured would have.
I love how you came for blood but dress it up as if you are being reasonable.
So, I imagine you realize that nearly all combat footage is available on TikTok. Footage of murders in the Ukraine/Russia war, videos of drones dropping grenades on people from above, videos of burning bodies in bombed out cars… videos of Israeli settlers kidnapping children from off of the streets and beating them to death… it’s all there. Why is this treated so differently from that? Aside, If showing oppressed people taking actions to liberate themselves hurts your opinion of them, you already were on the wrong side of history.
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Ie. they’re sending out warnings under recently enacted legislation.
Apart from the legislation being new, it isn’t. They’ve been warning companies about this for a while now, before the whole Israel-Hamas thing started. Some examples:
TechCrunch, April 2023:
US news, January 2023:
You keep missing essential bits of the article and not connecting the dots.
Notice the weasel word of terrorism? So, what Hamas did was terrorism, but what Israel does on a daily basis is just what… geopolitics? I’ve yet to see a state that calls to ban Israeli nationalists from platforms for spreading complete falsehoods, like the whole beheaded babies lie that’s going around now (and being amplified by the president of the United States). That is definitively misinformation, and the use of such falsehoods to attempt to justify Israel’s response is itself an act of terrorism, using fear and intimidation to pursue political goals.
They released proof of the murdered babies thing today. Feel free to check my comment history for a link if you want. The PM of Israel posted some of the pictures on X.
That wasn’t my claim, I said they’re spreading misinformation claiming that babies are being beheaded, and the president of the United States is amplifying that claim, on National TV to boot. Something which no one has proof of, not the Israeli government, not the American government, no one.
That is sad though, I haven’t seen the dead babies myself yet, thankfully.
I’m not sure I understand what you mean. I’m saying they literally provided proof today of those dead babies, some of which were beheaded. It makes sense Biden would have been shown them before they were made public, too.
This is exactly what I am claiming is incorrect. (Writing this to be absolutely clear)
Edit: found a really good article about it https://www.reuters.com/world/nato-ministers-shown-horrific-video-hamas-attack-2023-10-12/
Edit 2: in the article it says the white house later clarified Biden did not see the images, this is incorrect. The white house correspondent said it could not be confirmed, not that he had not seen them. Those are two very different statements lol.
It literally says in your own article there is no evidence of beheaded children or babies.
You realize you’re the one spreading misinformation?