Critics renew calls for a TikTok ban, claiming platform has an anti-Israel bias

The perceived performance of pro-Palestinian content on the platform depends on how you parse TikTok’s data.

Critics renew calls for a TikTok ban, claiming platform has an anti-Israel bias

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Israel losing media war on Tik Tok; Palestinian civilian casualties continue to mount:

However, Tik-Tok has become the latest battle ground for the conflict between Israel and Palestine, with potentially dangerous consequences for the side that fails to influence the most hearts and minds on an international scale.

Media Bias: Ukraine Blocks Journalists From Front Lines With Escalating Censorship

After Ukrainian forces regained control of the port city of Kherson last November, following eight months of Russian occupation, some journalists entered the liberated city within hours. Without formal permission to be there, they documented the jubilant crowds welcoming soldiers with hugs and Ukrainian flags. Ukrainian officials, who tightly control press access to the front lines, responded by revoking the journalists’ press credentials, claiming that they had “ignored existing restrictions.”

Ukraine Blocks Journalists From Front Lines With Escalating Censorship

As if Ukraine doesn’t create ‘propaganda’!? 🙄

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Inside the high-stakes clash for control of Ukraine’s story:

The heated clashes have remained largely behind the scenes because the credentials are vital to report from the country, and journalists worry that a public conflict might further threaten their access. Most of the journalists from Western and Ukrainian news organizations who have clashed with their handlers spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Zelensky TOLD Rupert Murdoch To Fire Tucker Carlson?

Fox News Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch held a previously unreported call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy this spring in which the two discussed the war and the anniversary of the deaths of Fox News journalists last March. The Ukrainian president had a similar conversation with Lachlan Murdoch on March 15, which Zelenskyy noted in a little-noticed aside during a national broadcast last month.

The Murdochs’ Ukraine connection

Previously:

All the theories why Tucker Carlson got fired, from offensive texts about his bosses to too much prayer talk and Rupert Murdoch’s personal disdain

Murdoch was displeased with Carlson’s stance on the Ukraine war—a graphic on Carlson’s show had previously called the country’s President Volodymyr Zelensky a “Ukrainian pimp.” The host also repeatedly chided the U.S. for providing military aid to Ukraine. Murdoch’s opinion of Carlson’s commentary had become so negative that he complained about it during a newsroom meeting, according to anonymous sources cited by the Washington Post

Fox News parts ways with Tucker Carlson

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The Rupert Murdoch-owned network has announced the immediate departure of the star host

Fox News parts ways with Tucker Carlson

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Abby Grossberg, a producer who had worked on Carlson’s show, filed lawsuits against the company last month related to the Dominion case, including claims that she and other women faced sexism and harassment from coworkers and officials.

Tucker Carlson has left Fox News

YouTube: Tucker Carlson: If I get fired for telling the truth then so be it