The Truth About TikTok’s Spin on Israel-Gaza

Offline with Jon Favreau

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, News

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Jon and Max get into the numbers behind TikTok’s supposed pro-Palestinian tilt— is the bias real, what do “views” signify, and how many of these videos are spreading misinformation? With content creators surpassing legacy media as Americans’ primary source of news, the guys discuss the future of getting credible information on social media. And to round it out, Jon updates Max on House Speaker Mike Johnson’s higher power: a porn policing software called Covenant Eyes.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	If you are a Tik-Toc influencer, your incentive is not to think about what can I do
0:05.4	productively for people of Israel, the people of Gaza, God forbid the people of both.
0:10.5	Your incentive is what is the thing that is going to get people to watch my
0:15.1	videos and that is expressing the most fervent outrage at the other side
0:19.6	articulating the conflict not even as one of Israelis and Palestinians,
0:23.7	but one of the influencers who share my views, who are good,
0:28.5	and the influencers who have other views who are pieces of shit,
0:31.8	and we're going to get them in the comments.
0:34.0	Welcome to offline, I'm John Favreau. I'm Max Fisher. We got a couple stories to get
0:39.0	into today Max. We got the death of news on social media.
0:42.8	R. I.
0:43.8	But alive and well on podcasts.
0:47.0	Sam Bankman-Freed's guilty verdict.
0:49.6	I'm shocked.
0:50.6	I thought he was innocent.
0:52.0	I thought he was innocent. I thought he was a good guy.
0:53.6	You think so?
0:54.2	Yeah, I read up on this whole thing.
0:57.0	I'm buying the dip.
0:58.2	I'm sending him some cash now to invest.
1:01.3	And just for fun, we're also going to cover why Speaker Mike Johnson sends his internet search history to his son.
1:07.0	It's the answer is disgusting.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Crooked Media, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Crooked Media and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.