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Revolution or red tape? Australia blocks under-16s from social media

03.12.24|Omer Kabir
Legislation aims to delay exposure to online risks but raises enforcement challenges.
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"Consumers aren't afraid of advertising, they want entertainment with value"

17.09.24|Meir Orbach
Anna Pelkin, Country Manager of TikTok Israel, said at Calcalist and Leumi's Mind the Tech London conference: "The ability to capture the attention of consumers is a significant challenge because they have new expectations from brands."
תכנים פרו נאציים ב טיקטוק שנוצרו באמצעות AI

TikTok’s Nazi problem: How extremists are thriving on the platform

05.08.24|Omer Kabir
A new report unveils the tactics and reach of extremist content that thrives on TikTok
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"For the consumer TikTok is entertainment, for businesses it's a growth engine"

05.03.24|Elihay Vidal
Anna Pelkin, Country Manager of TikTok Israel, explained that "small and medium-sized businesses are very successful on TikTok. Their authentic and simple voice, as well as the presentation of the 'behind the scenes' of the business, attract a large audience"
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"Israel is losing the war on TikTok. Palestinians have been more active for many, many years"

29.02.24|Viki Auslender
"When Israelis compete about whose suffering is greater, they lose," added Dr. Lilly Boxman-Shabtai, a Hebrew University researcher of digital culture who has examined how the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is represented on TikTok
הפגנה הפגנת תמיכה  פלסטינים ב קולומביה

"Nobody in the Western world would normalize ISIS. Why should we do that to Hamas?"

20.11.23|James Spiro
The Israel-Gaza war is being fought on multiple battlegrounds - why have some become so sympathetic to terrorists online?
מפגינים פרו פלסטיניים בברוקלין ניו יורק ב טיקטוק של the messenger

Pick your battles: Despite the dangers, taking out TikTok is not the solution for Israeli diplomacy

06.11.23|Viki Auslender
TikTok is seen by parts of the public as a "danger to national security" that uses bots and covert campaigns to sway young public opinion against Israel. But if we had reliable institutions that don't feed on division and incitement, TikTok wouldn't really be a problem
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TikTok: The toxic battle for the minds of Gen-Z

02.11.23|James Spiro
Hamas committed atrocities against innocent Israelis - so why are young Americans siding with the terrorists?
וידאו CTech Tokyo Conference Maayan Kotler

“Today gaming is for everyone”

01.06.23|CTech, Ariela Karmel
Maayan Kotler, Head of APAC Gaming, Global Business Solutions, at TikTok, was speaking to CTech at the Israel-Japan Conference in Tokyo
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A wake-up call to content creators: TikTok banned in Montana

28.05.23|Ran Finkelstein
"While the full effects of the Montana ban remain uncertain, it serves as a reminder of the evolving challenges that creators face and offers a glimpse into potential changes in the digital landscape," writes Ran Finkelstein
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TikTok security breach allowed attackers to leak personal information

03.05.23|CTech
The research group of cyber company Imperva uncovered a vulnerability, which has now been fixed, that could allow attackers to monitor users' activity on both mobile and desktop devices

Azrieli Group investing $780 million to build new data center for TikTok

09.03.23|Amir Perger
The center will be set up in Norway through Azrieli’s subsidiary Green Mountain
טיקטוק טיק טוק TikTok בייטדאנס ByteDance

Taking a TikTok journey straight to the Lions’ Den

31.10.22|Eitan Goldstein
I tell this story not as a warning of the dangers of TikTok or social media, nor to promote content moderation on these platforms. Rather, I tell this story as a warning about the type of world we now live in.
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Falling in “like”: The internet’s measurement frenzy affects our self-worth

06.10.22|Viki Auslender
The internet's obsession with measurement, from the number of posts on social networks to the number of emails, is designed to affect the self-worth of users and make them stay on the platform as much as possible