cover image: TikTok and White Supremacist Content  - Ciarán O’Connor and Jared Holt

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TikTok and White Supremacist Content - Ciarán O’Connor and Jared Holt

13 May 2024

When researchers attempted to revisit the videos days later to begin an archiving process, 18 of the initial 126 were unavailable, indicating that either TikTok or the user that uploaded the video had removed the content or the account it was uploaded to. [...] Researchers also identified videos that juxtaposed clips of peaceful and Researchers recorded data for the white supremacist idyllic locations in the past primarily featuring white people content in their sample, including the number of views against clips of the same locations today, presented as videos received, date of upload, hashtags contained destitute or dangerous and which primarily featur. [...] These videos were judged to violate TikTok’s They also judged whether the profile of the account that misinformation guidelines as they misleadingly create uploaded the video featured hate material, promoted the impression that the people of color in the modern clips extremist figures or groups related to white supremacy, were responsible for the destitution and danger portrayed and assessed the c. [...] The most popular hashtags used Views alongside white supremacist content were hashtags that Of the 108 videos, the median number of views at the time are also generally popular on TikTok and have no direct of analysis was 6,097. [...] As was the case in ISD’s 2021 report, TikTok users interested A handful of videos in the sample received fewer than 100 in posting about and promoting hateful and extremist TikTok and White Supremacist Content 7 views but 16 videos in the sample received more than figures, movements and ideologies are able to do with 100,000 views.
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