CLAIM: Nikki Haley says TikTok makes those who consume it more likely to hold antisemitic views than they were before.
VERDICT: PARTLY TRUE. There is one recent survey to back that up, though there are questions about its methodology.
Former UN Ambassador and South Carolina governor Haley called for a ban on TikTok during the fourth Republican Presidential Debate on Wednesday night in Alabama, carried live on NewsNation. (It is a position that some other candidates share with her.)
In justifying that position, she said that there was a survey that had shown that for every 30 minutes spent on TikTok, viewers became 17% more antisemitic. That wasn’t exactly what the survey said, but it was not too far off. From the UK Jewish News:
TikTok users who spend just 30 minutes a day on the site increase their chance of holding “antisemitic or anti-Israel” views, compared with other social media platforms, a survey shows.
According to the US-based survey, this likelihood increased by 17 percent, compared with six percent on Instagram and X’s two percent.
The report was carried out by Anthony Goldbloom, the founder of data science company Kaggle, which was acquired by…
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