The Chinese government may be influencing tiktok moderation policy in various ways, but I think it's still a bit of a leap from "the relative rates of different hashtags related to the israel/palestine conflict don't appear to match opinions given in a pew poll given to a random sample of 18-29 year olds" to assuming that tiktok is suppressing pro-israel content.
That's not to say that isn't necessarily the case, but opinion polls are very different from self selected groups of people vocally producing social media content and I think the assertion that the numbers should match up requires a little bit more evidence (e.g is that usually the case in situations like this?)
The hashtags and the question asked in the Pew poll are also meaningfully different. Thinking that Hamas bears a lot of responsibility for the current conflict but still not approving of Israel's response is not an uncommon view.
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The Chinese government may be influencing tiktok moderation policy in various ways, but I think it's still a bit of a leap from "the relative rates of different hashtags related to the israel/palestine conflict don't appear to match opinions given in a pew poll given to a random sample of 18-29 year olds" to assuming that tiktok is suppressing pro-israel content.
That's not to say that isn't necessarily the case, but opinion polls are very different from self selected groups of people vocally producing social media content and I think the assertion that the numbers should match up requires a little bit more evidence (e.g is that usually the case in situations like this?)
The hashtags and the question asked in the Pew poll are also meaningfully different. Thinking that Hamas bears a lot of responsibility for the current conflict but still not approving of Israel's response is not an uncommon view.