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TikTok and Anti-Migrant & Anti-Refugee Content - By Lucy Cooper and Kevin D. Reyes

25 Apr 2024

ISD identified and collected a sample of 104 TikTok videos The average number of comments in the dataset was 1.6K about migrants and refugees that contained content and the median amount was 176. [...] hate in the sample included conflation of Chinese migrants with communism and threats of China “invading” the The average number of views was 438.6K and the median United States. [...] The TikTok videos in the dataset received an average of 19.2K likes and a median of 915 ISD also assessed the sample to determine which of likes. [...] Language about an “invasion” of migrants was used in the captions of 16 (15.4%) of the videos in this dataset, positioning all migrants as a hostile group posing a danger to the United States and its residents. [...] “rapists,” “savages,” “thieves,” “terrorists,” and “very Often, the beginning of the conversation between the dangerous” are used by some commenters to describe creator and migrant was omitted from the video, so it was migrants and refugees in general, and in some cases to not clear what question, if any, was actually asked.
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