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Critics renew calls for a TikTok ban, claiming platform has an anti-Israel bias (nbcnews.com)
5 points by hypeit on Nov 1, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



TikTok tends to figure out what your interests are tailor the algo to feed you more of what you like. If you prefer anti-Israeli content that's what you're going to get since views and interaction is how they sell ads.

(And journalists know that TikTok does this... they've written about it before.)


Weird, considering Israel itself is on tiktok with an official account




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