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"Elon is an antisemite" isn't "Twitter is the most antisemitic platform." It's about whether Elon personally chooses to believe anti-semitic tropes about Jewish Replacement Theory. Pick the least antisemitic platform that exists - if the CEO started personally posting anti-semitic beliefs, a lot of people would think that such CEO was anti-semitic, and it would be utterly irrelevant whether the platform users were anti-semitic.
But the issue is companies' ads being shown next to anti-semitic content. The above is a goal post shift to put the onus on Elon.
Okay, let's feature the company's owners. TikTok is a Chinse company and is connected to the CCP via ByteDance. They also have a history of censoring content the Chinese government isn't fond of.
So why advertise on a platform that follows anti-prettymucheverything values? Good for the goose and all that.
Because they're not much worse. A survey that shows whether individual users get more antisemitic after using various platforms doesn't say anything about whether those platforms are successful at protecting major brands from being placed next to toxic content.
Again, where are all the From The River To The Sea videos going?
Because he's labelled the concerns of advertisers as "blackmail." If an advertiser says that they can't afford the brand hit of the CEO of the platform posting agreement with anti-semitic tropes, that's not blackmail.
How many blackmailers openly say, "If you don't do what I want you to do, I'm going to <insert threat here>"? Most folks don't confess their crimes openly.
Because their CEO isn't personally posting his agreement with anti-semitic tropes, and because they haven't been shown to fail at protecting brands from having their ads shown next to toxic content that violates their ToS.
Interesting. So when TikTok was promoting content praising Bin Laden's letter on 9/11, that doesn't violate the ToS?
