TikTok is reportedly escalating a sweeping crackdown on pro-Palestine creators – deleting videos, scrubbing comments, and burying posts about Gaza. In July it hired Erica Mindel, a former IDF instructor who says her Zionism was “shaped during Operation Protective Edge,” to run hate-speech policy (with help from ADL lobbying).
A couple weeks later, on September 13, TikTok introduced an overhaul of its community guidelines, banning users from calling the IDF “terrorists” and rolling out automated moderation that retroactively wipes posts. Users report “Free Palestine” comments disappearing in real time and Israeli war-crimes videos taken down.
Oracle, Silver Lake, and Andreessen Horowitz are set to buy 80% of TikTok’s U.S. operation – a move likely to make the platform even more aggressive in censoring pro-Palestinian content.
📱Developing: TikTok is reportedly escalating a sweeping crackdown on pro-Palestine creators – deleting videos, scrubbing comments, and burying posts about Gaza. In July it hired Erica Mindel, a former IDF instructor who says her Zionism was “shaped during Operation Protective… https://t.co/KuHwwMNgDy
— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) September 18, 2025
CyberWell, an Israeli intel-linked org, is now working as a "trusted partner" with "all major social media platforms" to censor "anti-Semitism," their CEO boasts.
HALF the content they flag is taken down and their reports have been responsible for "removing well over 300,000… pic.twitter.com/D9yTDe79Ro
— Chris Menahan 🇺🇸 (@infolibnews) September 17, 2025