[resoluteteeth]

The Chinese government may be influencing tiktok moderation policy in various ways, but I think it's still a bit of a leap from "the relative rates of different hashtags related to the israel/palestine conflict don't appear to match opinions given in a pew poll given to a random sample of 18-29 year olds" to assuming that tiktok is suppressing pro-israel content.

That's not to say that isn't necessarily the case, but opinion polls are very different from self selected groups of people vocally producing social media content and I think the assertion that the numbers should match up requires a little bit more evidence (e.g is that usually the case in situations like this?)

[plorkyeran]

The hashtags and the question asked in the Pew poll are also meaningfully different. Thinking that Hamas bears a lot of responsibility for the current conflict but still not approving of Israel's response is not an uncommon view.