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TikTok’s U.S. takeover: Will it curb antisemitic content?

JL;DR SUMMARY With TikTok's U.S. operations set to be taken over by new American owners, questions arise about the platform's approach to antisemitic content. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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AdlSocial MediaContent ModerationHamas AttacksTiktokExtremismAlgorithmsContent CreatorsAmerican Tech

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United States
"A new set of American powerplayers appears set to take over ownership of TikToks U.S. business from the Chinese company that made the short-form video app the most widely used social media platform in the world."
China
"TikToks U.S. business from the Chinese company that made the short-form video app the most widely used social media platform in the world."
United Kingdom
"said Hannah Rose, senior research and policy manager at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a British organization that researches online extremism."
Israel
"concern about TikTok for years. Fears that antisemitic content was spreading unchecked on the platform increased after the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel two years ago, when Jewish content creators asserted that they were facing a barrage of hate and that the company was not doing enough to protect them."

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