Anti-Semitic content on TikTok surges 912% according to a new study led by Prof. (Emeritus) Gabriel Weimann

A new study reveals an alarming year-over-year spike in anti-Semitic tropes, images and rhetoric on TikTok. “TikTok caters primarily to young, impressionable and naive audiences. We need to take very seriously the impact that bad-faith actors is having on young consumers of social media,” noted Prof. (Emeritus) Gabriel Weimann (Department of Communication). Conducted over a four-month period in conjunction with Natalie Masri (International Institute for Counter Terrorism), the study further found a 41-percent rise in anti-Semitic postings and a more than 1,375-percent climb in usernames with anti-Semitic titles, such as @holocaustwasgood and @eviljews. <i24News and the Jerusalem Post>>