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Not sure what AIPAC has to do with this. The tiktok bill was brought up as a separate measure, just voted on the same day.


Tiktok has videos of the effects of the war in Gaza. Young people watch these videos. Hence young people don't support Israel.


Of all people I know who don't support the Israeli government (including myself), none of them use Tiktok. It really seems a stretch.


Do Twitter or YouTube have no videos of the war in Gaza, or are such videos a uniquely TikTok thing?


TikTok does not actually have many such videos since they get taken down far more aggressively than they do on, say, X/Twitter or Telegram. However, TikTok has the eyeballs of the vast majority of the young people and they talk about the ongoing atrocities nonstop, and it's crushed the image of both Israel and USA over the past 6 months. From that angle, it's a huge national interest issue for both the countries' ruling establishment to get the censorship level (and censorship priorities) of such topics on TikTok under better control.




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