TikTok has joined the initiative of the WJC and UNESCO in the fight against the dissemination of Holocaust denial content
A powerful ally has emerged in the fight against the dissemination of Holocaust denial content in Internet. TikTok has joined the initiative of the World Jewish Congress and UNESCO and now all search queries containing the word “Holocaust” will lead first of all to the aboutholocaust.org resource with reliable information.
TikTok’s partnership with UNESCO and WJC is especially important given the platform’s predominantly young audience, which mostly knows very little about the events of eighty years ago and easily succumbs to manipulative techniques.
Prior to TikTok’s decision to join the campaign, UNESCO found that about 17% of the platform’s Holocaust-related content contained either genocide denial or misrepresentation of facts.
UNESCO and WJC are working in this direction with other popular social networks — Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube. However, it is still far from a tangible result: in August last year, about 80% of publications with hate content remained undeleted on those resources.
In the background of this, the TikTok’s initiative gives cause for optimism.
