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Blinken Blames Social Media for Israel Losing PR War; Romney Agrees, Confirms TikTok Ban is to Help IsraelChris MenahanInformationLiberation May. 05, 2024 |
Link: https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64438/
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While speaking before the McCain Institute on Friday, Blinken lamented that social media is allowing the world to see "the inescapable reality of people who have and continue to suffer grievously in Gaza," whereas in the past the "information environment" was controlled by a few newspapers and TV outlets who could shape the narrative. Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), who was interviewing Blinken, concurred and added that the US banning TikTok is being done to help Israel in their PR war. Transcript via American Rhetoric: As Romney noted, the TikTok ban -- which was stuffed into the $95 billion giveaway for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan -- was done for Israel. Ben Shapiro, who championed the TikTok ban, told his followers in March that it was an "anti-Semitic conspiracy theory" that the ban was done for Israel. Multiple congressmen at the time had already stated explicitly that the TikTok ban was to help Israel because they were losing the PR war. The Intercept reported on Saturday that Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY), who co-sponsored the TikTok ban (and the Antisemitism Awareness Act) said in a closed-door meeting with the Israel-First "No Labels" party that Congress moved to ban TikTok because "you're seeing how these kids are being manipulated" to oppose Israel on the platform. From The Intercept, "IN NO LABELS CALL, JOSH GOTTHEIMER, MIKE LAWLER, AND UNIVERSITY TRUSTEES AGREE: FBI SHOULD INVESTIGATE CAMPUS PROTESTS": Ben Shapiro wants to cancel people and label them "anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists" for pointing these facts out and Congress is moving to make it a crime. |