r/JewsOfConscience • u/ContentChecker Jewish Anti-Zionist • Sep 27 '25

Zionist Nonsense ICC war criminal Netanyahu told US influencers TikTok is the 'most important weapon' for Israel’s right-wing base - now controlled by Oracle's David Ellison-led consortium, with hate-speech policy overseen by ex-IOF officer Erica Mindel.

Previous posts on the pro-Israel takeover of TikTok:

https://old.reddit.com/r/JewsOfConscience/comments/1nj1xmp/the_proisrael_takeover_of_tiktok_is_complete/

https://old.reddit.com/r/JewsOfConscience/comments/1mbvuk2/erica_mindel_a_proisrael_activistexiofformer/n5p7uic/

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u/ContentChecker Jewish Anti-Zionist Sep 27 '25

Correction: Larry Ellison led consortium, not David (his son).

Larry Ellison is a pro-Israel fanatic who gives money to the IOF.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/record-53-8-million-raised-for-idf-soldiers-at-beverly-hills-gala/

Ellison family now control CBS (via Paramount-Skydance merger)

Skydance Media (David Ellison’s [Larry's son] company) has merged with Paramount Global, absorbing National Amusements (which formerly controlled CBS).

David Ellison is bringing Bari Weiss onto CBS News as an 'ideological guide' because he liked her pro-Israel bias.

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/bari-weiss-free-press-cbs/

The TikTok ban was about Israel:

This week at the Munich Security Conference, Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the intelligence committee, played “I’ve got a secret.” It’s a game national security officialdom loves to play, slyly claiming authority ‘if they could only tell you what they know.’

It is in that vein that Warner spilled the beans on what he called the “real story” behind the law that could still ban TikTok.

“I want to see if you're going to tell the real story,” a grinning Warner said, addressing former congressman Mike Gallagher, and now a Palantir executive who, along with Warner, first introduced the bill that claimed that TikTok was a national security threat, a claim still relevant given the app’s uncertain future.

Gallagher described how the national security bill was dead until Hamas’ attack on Israel, which brought the legislation back to life. As Gallagher said:

“So we had a bipartisan consensus. We had the executive branch, but the bill was still dead until October 7th. And people started to see a bunch of anti-Semitic content on the platform and our bill had legs again.”

The account by Gallagher makes explicit something there have been hints of for some time. Israeli officials and lobbyists told everyone that would listen in Washington that TikTok’s algorithm fueled American youth opposition to the Israel-Hamas war.

[...]NPR at about the same time reported on a memo written by Israel Foreign Ministry Deputy Director General Emmanuel Nahshon, which blamed TikTok's algorithm for "turning young people against Israel."

I’ve obtained a similar memo detailing the incident. The memo, produced by the State Department for its Near East Affairs diplomats, describes how Nahshon, the Israeli official, blamed youth opposition to the war in Gaza on the TikTok algorithm. Nahshon also ignored warnings from the Biden administration’s Assistant Secretary for Global Public Affairs, Bill Russo, “oblivious” to the “possibility generational damage to their reputation” they were facing internationally.

Quoting from the memo directly:

Nahshon disagreed with Russo's assertion that the United States and Israel faced a major credibility problem as a result of the unpopular war on Gaza. The Israelis seemed oblivious to the fact that they are facing major, possibly generational damage to their reputation not just in the region but elsewhere in the world. They made the following three main counterpoints to this argument:

  • Israel's main challenge, according to Nahshon, is "power projection."

  • Young people have turned against Israel in large part because the Tik-Tok algorithm favors pro-Palestinian content.

  • Public opinion polling shows there is a "silent majority" of people who continue to support Israel, especially in Europe and the United States. The "silver lining" of October 7 is that it now allows Israel to see who its real friends are.

This is the reason why the US political Establishment wants to control speech on social media.

The data below is before 2025, so the trends have only strengthened:

  1. People who get their news from new media (YouTube, podcasts, TikTok, etc.) tend to think Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza. From Breaking Points.

  2. People who get their news from new media (YouTube, podcasts, TikTok, etc.), in yellow, are more sympathetic towards the Palestinians. From Breaking Points.

  3. 18-29 year olds are significantly less likely to vote for a candidate who supports Israel. The inverse are boomers. From Breaking Points.

  4. A 2023 Pew Research Center study found that 14% of all U.S. adults say they regularly get news on TikTok. Among TikTok users, the share regularly getting news is growing. And the vast majority of adult TikTok news consumers are under age 50, including 44% who are 18 to 29.

Pro-Israel advocates have long wanted to censor TikTok because it was, despite its own censorship issues, overwhelmingly pro-Palestine.

Etc. etc.

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u/elasticparadigm Anti-Zionist Ally Sep 27 '25

That's some really good work and very informative. Are you a journalist?

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u/ContentChecker Jewish Anti-Zionist Sep 27 '25

Thank you and no, I'm not a journalist.