There are reports of rising antisemitism thanks to Tiktok e. G. https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/bildungsstaette-anne-frank-pr...
If there was no TikTok/Twitter etc, people would have heard of it from politicians and NGOs and some people with other motives would have used it.
I wouldn't say that this is necessarily Twitters fault and I don't think these comments should be blocked. People gravitate towards easy answers to their problems and blocking doesn't help because there's private groups and real life communities where that kind of stuff is discussed.
I think, people concerned of social media are also seeking easy answers like those concerned with the mass killings of Palestinians. They all have valid concerns but their desire of easy solutions is misguided. It's so easy to say its the "evil jews" and its so easy to say that social media companies are radicalising people. Only if they can do this thing they will fix it, they think.
There's no easy solution to Gaza-Israel conflict, there's no easy solution to people communicating BS with each other.
As an example, this event organised by jewish people to talk about peace have been marked as antisemite by the government and lead to funding cancellation of a cultural center.
Can you read German or does your knowledge is based on English sources on this topic?
As I said, I don't see political content on TikTok but that's probably due to my engagement patters. People who are into these things, they likely see as much as they like.
I do agree that social media can be a danger to the society though. IMHO, the solution to this shouldn't be suppression of speech or tune algorithms to favor any politics. After all, the world is never simple as the good vs the evil, even though every party tries really hard to depict themselves as the good ones.
I think we would be better off with enforcing transparency. I would love if EU made TikTok open its algorithm and enforce review on the data that the algo runs on.
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The algorithms seem to feed people what they like, so people with fringe ideas think they have a lot of support. Matched together with mob mentality, threaten and "downvote" dissenters, which makes the "downvoted" people believe they are fringe, I can easily see how Facebook at least increases the risk of genocide mobs, or any other obscene herd mentality action.
Like, people that are considered maniacs by their peers, can more easily find each other and organize, fundamentally. And the algorithm does it for them.
I don't know but I' definitely not happy with the current state.
A radical group seem to self-radicalize in isolation, putting "moderate radicals" away, making the cycle self-enforcing.