Mitt Romney and Anthony Blinken acknowledge that the TikTok ban was influenced by concerns over Israel's public relations and the prevalence of pro-Palestinian content on the platform. Lawmakers cite the emotional impact of social media and the need to shape the narrative as reasons for the ban.
Mitt Romney admits TikTok ban was about censoring pro-Palestinian content https://t.co/G0arYMFoI2
🇮🇱🇺🇸 Great thread on the Israeli-backed US TikTok ban. "We really have a TikTok problem." - Johnathan Greenblatt, Director of the ADL. https://t.co/pG7Bpcv1Ud https://t.co/cmrjsd0eXv
Romney Cites Anti-Israel Posts As Latest Reason To Ban TikTok https://t.co/Ctg3rv8MwY
Romney Suggests Negative Perception of Israel Adds to Why There’s “Overwhelming Support” for TikTok Ban https://t.co/D7eeYkJihX
🚨Mitt Romney admits lawmakers rallied to ban TikTok because of criticism of Israel on the app🚨 The supposed "threat from China" wasn't enough... https://t.co/F7ioiJyKOT
Mitt Romney says support for a nationwide ban on TikTok is connected to the "overwhelming" volume of "mentions of Palestinians" on the popular platform. https://t.co/BSZlc4Ksx0
Mitt Romney & Tony Blinken are both totally flummoxed as to why Israel's PR "has been so awful" lately. Blinken speculates it's the "emotional impact" of social media, which makes it a challenge to sustain "the narrative." Romney says this is why Congress just voted to ban TikTok https://t.co/UJ3ML2fM6f
Here's Sen. Romney telling Blinken that one reason lawmakers banned TikTok is that there are more pro-Palestinian posts on the platform. Back in November, @jdcapelouto and I wrote about why that's really the case: TikTok is popular in Muslim countries https://t.co/RBx1PQGXkY https://t.co/90Jz17nn6M
Anthony Blinken and Romney FINALLY admit that the TikTok ban was motivated by their failure to cover up the genocide in Gaza. https://t.co/eesYis6mk0
NEW: 🇺🇲🇮🇱 Blinken admits that the TikTok ban was motivated by the Israeli PR failure https://t.co/bLhoXH6JQ1
Incredible mask-off moment: Romney and Blinken say that the ban of TikTok was directly because "the emotion, the impact of images has a very challenging effect on the narrative", the narrative being "Israel's PR". https://t.co/WkIGTAXG2X
Incredible mask-off moment: Romney and Blinken say that the ban of TikTok was directly because it "the emotion, the impact of images has a very challenging effect on the narrative", the narrative being "Israel's PR". https://t.co/WkIGTAXG2X
Mitt Romney admits alongside Blinken that the bill to ban TikTok was passed because the social media platform was hurting Israel’s PR. Follow: @AFpost https://t.co/Pmnva4eYDk