Larry Ellison, along with investment firms Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz also just took over TikTok to…… TikTok is reportedly escalating a sweeping crackdown on pro-Palestine creators – deleting videos, scrubbing comments, and burying posts about Gaza. In July it hired Erica Mindel, a former IDF instructor who says her Zionism was “shaped during Operation Protective Edge,” to run hate-speech policy (with help from ADL lobbying). A couple weeks later, on September 13, TikTok introduced an overhaul of its community guidelines, banning users from calling the IDF “terrorists” and rolling out automated moderation that retroactively wipes posts. Users report “Free Palestine” comments disappearing in real time and Israeli war-crimes videos taken down.
