Views on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict on tiktok is predominantly anti-Israel/pro-Palestine, which some accuse is a result of Tiktok is rigging the algorithm.
While others accuse TikTok of not doing enough to manipulate the popularity of the content to suppress pro Palestinian voices. Hence why TikTok is being forced to sell to a western buyer or risk being banned in the US.
> “There’s periods of time when TikTok is disproportionately amplifying pro-Palestine content, and there’s times when it’s disproportionately amplifying pro-Israel content,” Edelson says. “When you sum up everything over the entire study period, they amplify those two things equally, but it changes over time, initially.”
So equal. That doesn't align with claims TikTok is amplifying predominately Pro-Palestinian content.
> Pro-Palestinian content, on the other hand, jumps significantly in the second week and continues to grow steadily. But things begin to change on Oct. 27 when the number page views on pro-Israel posts skyrockets — 2,555 views per post compared to 336 views per post previously.
This look suspicious right? One type of content growing steadily and the other spiking?
>So equal. That doesn't align with claims TikTok is amplifying predominately Pro-Palestinian content.
This is moving the goalposts[1]. The original statement I made and the part you asked for source on was "Views on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict on tiktok is predominantly anti-Israel/pro-Palestine". That's not the same as Tiktok "amplifying" Palestinian/Israeli content more.
[1] If you can call it that, I'm only stating what critics of Tiktok claim, not that's my view.
> Views on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict on tiktok is predominantly anti-Israel/pro-Palestine
From most evidence, that's true if you replace "tiktok" with "Earth", too.
> which some accuse is a result of Tiktok is rigging the algorithm.
TikTok could be rigging the algorithm, but there's lots of evidence from other channels that the described result is what you'd expect if they weren't.
Even in the Western countries where Israel's support has been strong, public support has generally cratered in recent years as the long policy of genocide in Palestine has been particularly undisguised in Gaza. Basically only the American Right (excited as they are about doing an ethnic cleansing at home) remains very strongly in support of Israel.
I'd love to see the stats on that considering everyone's algorithmic approach.
I often see anti-Israeli-government/pro-Palestinian/anti-genocide content across my platforms and, when lazy, I'll wonder why then there isn't more change.
And then I wake up and realise again that I'm in a bubble.
