TikTok came under attack recently from Jewish celebrities and TikTok creators who said the platform had become a pit of reeking anti-Semitism.
“What is happening at TikTok is it is creating the biggest anti-Semitic movement since the Nazis,” actor Sacha Baron Cohen said during the call, according to The New York Times.
“Shame on you,” the “Borat” star said, adding that TikTok could “flip a switch” to quell the rampant anti-Semitism on the social media site.
“If you think back to Oct. 7, the reason why Hamas were able to behead young people and rape women was they were fed images from when they were small kids that led them to hate,” the comedian said, saying TikTok was a prime purveyor of such content.
The video call also included Debra Messing and Amy Schumer, as well as Adam Presser, TikTok’s head of operations, and Seth Melnick, who is in charge of user operations. Presser and Melnick are both based in the U.S. and both are Jewish.
‘Shame on you”: Sacha Baron Cohen accuses TikTok of ‘creating the biggest antisemitic movement since the Nazis’ https://t.co/bf10jAcfSy pic.twitter.com/13Simqa5Ng
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