ALBAWABA - With the constant rise of pro-Palestine protests across American Universities including Columbia University, NYU, Harvard, Yale, and many more, several social media users are hinting that TikTok could've been the reason behind the rise of the protests and that's why the US government wants to ban it.
According to C Span 2, US Senator Pete Ricketts revealed why the government wants to ban the Chinese video-sharing platform after saying in a talk that "Pro-Palestinian and Hamas videos on TikTok have more reach than the top 10 US news websites combined."
Is TikTok fueling American universities' pro-Palestine protests?
Users took to the comment section on X (formerly known as Twitter) above and voiced their opinions about the matter:
"So basically they are saying they don't want TikTok because it's spreading news faster and with no censorship."
"Isn’t it ironic that the US government is censoring the truth?"
"Zionists control the US government."
According to the New York Times, Congress has recently passed a bill that could ban TikTok after US President Joe Biden signed the bill to force the sale of the owner of the video app ByteDance or ban it. The bill was passed on Tuesday, Apr. 23, 2024, and was signed into law on Wednesday.
CEO of TikTok Shou Chew will have a year to decide the matter.
A brief on the pro-Palestine protests happening in the US
(Photo by Charly TRIBALLEAU / AFP)
After days of overwhelming protests across multiple US university campuses, Columbia University announced in a statement that its classes at its main campus will be hybrid till the end of the spring semester.
"Safety is our highest priority as we strive to support our students’ learning and all the required academic operations," the university said in an announcement Monday night.
Hundreds of dozens of protestors across multiple Ivy League schools swept their campuses in solidarity with the people of Gaza in their 200+ days of brutal Israeli aggression, which left more than 34,262 killed and at least 77,000 injured.
Moreover, At New York University, the school administration called the police on hundreds of protestors in what it claimed to be a "disorderly scene", after receiving reports of "intimidating chants", as protestors were calling for putting an end to the Israeli brutal aggression on Gaza.
