TikTok’s new hire to oversee hate speech policies for the app has long-standing ties to the Israeli army, the company confirmed to Jewish Insider on Monday.
The social media platform announced that Erica Mindel, a former US State Department contractor who worked for ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, the Biden administration’s special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, will join TikTok’s public policy and hate speech team in the US.
Mindel will “develop and drive the company’s positions on hate speech”, aim to “influence legislative and regulatory frameworks”, and “analyse hate speech trends” with a particular focus on antisemitic content, according to the official job description shared by TikTok.
Before her career at the US State Department, Mindel was an instructor in the Armoured Corps in the Israeli army’s spokesperson’s unit, according to information she provided when she appeared on a podcast with the American Jewish Committee.
O noes now i are conflicted about using the funny CCP app to turn over all my bioinformatic and demographic data, and to surreptitiously surveil my local area.
Zounds what a conundrum
hopesdead@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
To anyone that still believes keeping access to TikTok in the United States, is a matter of free speech, guess again.
You were sadly never on the right side of this issue.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Most people don’t have an issue with banning TikTok. Most people have issue with selective banning only targeting TikTok when every corporate social media does the same or worse.