cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15078354
Video source: https://x.com/ryangrim/status/1787134138283155963
Blinken saying the quiet part out loud. Tiktok is why people are concerned about the mass slaughter of women and children using our weapons and tax dollars! Damn tiktok and damn those kids!
A similar thing happened in Vietnam. News agencies went against the DoD narrative, causing the war to become wildly unpopular. A huge effort went into preventing that on television, which is why people who mainly get their news from TV find the Israeli counterattack justified.
“They don’t trust our lies like they used to!”
Here is direct source:
[19:31 Timestamped] Secretary Blinken participates in a keynote conversation at the McCain Institute [57:36 | May 04 2024 | U.S. Department of State]
“Blinken blames TikTok and social media for disrupting Israel’s lies on war in Gaza”
FTFY
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Social media sites like TikTok are partly to blame for widespread criticism of Israel’s war effort against Hamas in Gaza, according to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
New York mayor Eric Adams recently accused students at universities of falling under the sway of “outside agitators,” though the NYPD has offered little compelling evidence to support that charge.
Protesting students interviewed by The Independent said they had been moved to act by seeing images of destruction and suffering caused by Israel in Gaza, with the full backing of the US.
“You know, when I wake up in the morning and see a video of a parent carrying bits of their child in a plastic bag, that should not be normal, that should not be acceptable,” said Ava Lyon-Sereno, a Columbia student protester.
In March, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories argued in a report that there are “reasonable grounds” to conclude Israel has committed acts of genocide in Gaza.
In late April, health authorities in Gaza said so many civilians have been killed, and the country has been so devastated by widespread Israeli bombing, that officials are no longer able to count the dead.
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