Award-winning Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda has said she has been permanently banned from TikTok, days after the social media platform was acquired by new investors in the United States.
Owda, an Emmy Award-winning journalist and contributor to Al Jazeera’s AJ+ from Gaza, shared a video on her Instagram and X accounts on Wednesday, telling her followers that her TikTok account had been banned.
Netanyahu met with pro-Israel influencers in New York in September last year, telling them that he hoped the “purchase” of TikTok goes through.
“We have to fight with the weapons that apply to the battlefield in which we engage, and the most important ones are social media,” Netanyahu, who is a war crimes suspect, said at the time.
“The most important purchase that is going on right now is … TikTok,” Netanyahu added. “TikTok, number one, number one, and I hope it goes through, because it can be consequential.”
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expatriado@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 212d
lil bro is maga, he recently got a job offer at tik-tok, i wonder why
14specks@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 212d
Just giving the app the CBS news treatment
emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 210d
How does the sale of Tiktok's US operation to a US consortium affect a Palestinian?
Either she got banned on the real Tiktok - and this has nothing to do with the sale of Tiktok US - or she and Al Jazeera are using US Tiktok in the Middle East (but why?).
queermunist@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 210d
Because the sale of Tiktok was done to suppress Palestinian voices?
emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 210d
True, but it would only work in the US, no? Tiktok itself is still Singaporean, and they don't care about Israel's crimes being revealed.
queermunist@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 209d
Do you think the US acquisition has zero impact on Tiktok globally?
emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 204d
Yes. A group of US companies have bought Tiktok US. Tiktok elsewhere is still owned by the Singaporean / Chinese company.