>>159721>AFAIK it only really affects people in the US.Because they forced the sale of the US branch operations of TikTok to Oracle/Larry Ellison specifically to censor information about Palestine in the US.
https://thecradle.co/articles/pro-israel-tech-firm-to-take-control-of-us-tiktok-algorithmAs part of the same campaign, they put Erica Mindel, formerly of the IDF, in charge as "Public Policy Manager of Hate Speech" in July of 2025.
The change was actually immediately apparent after TikTok returned from the "ban" period. Suddenly, for one thing, there were waves and waves of extremely inorganic boomer commenters who only cared about flooding comments sections of student protesters with threats, mockery, insults, etc., and the moderation no longer did anything about it. Before that, you would usually get likes and maybe one or two positive comments, and the demographic was mostly young people. After TikTok came back from the ban, it was really obvious that there was some JIDF shit going on which TikTok had agreed not to interfere with, using aggressive Swarmfront (look it up) tactics to attempt to create an illusion of consensus. Suddenly, terms like "hasbarist" and "zionist" resulted in censorship of comments, but the JIDF commenters were straight up posting death threats and accusing everyone of being "hamas," "terrorists," etc.
Then, there were more shadowbannings of stuff about Palestine. Later, it got to the point where I uploaded promo for an event and they straight up would not let me post it. That was late Summer or early Fall of 2025. I stopped using it then and you should, too, I'm never touching it again. I think Americans can still use RedNote, which hasn't fallen under the censorship regime.