A TikTok logo is displayed on a smartphone in this illustration taken January 6, 2020. WASHINGTON: A US Senate panel's Republican lawmakers sent a letter on Friday to tech companies Meta Platforms, Google, TikTok and X, formerly called Twitter,
As fake news flood social media over Israel-Hamas war, observers call for more regulatory pressures on tech firms Gaza, a 45km-long enclave home to 2.3 million people, has been ruled since 2006 by Hamas. Gaza has been cut off from much of the outside world for 16 years since Israel imposed a blockade.
"Ordinarily policies limiting the distribution of disturbing content might make sense, but videos and images uploaded by soldiers, law enforcement, citizens, journalists, and those with real-time access to acts of terrorism need to be preserved to aid in prosecuting war crimes, intelligence gathering, media reporting, and the historical record."