Weltschmerz à Gogo<p>The Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) has just published a rather detailed report on TikTok's Nazi problem, and it's pretty bad, though really it's pretty indicative of the Nazi problem in social media generally, as shown by the cross-platform approach these creeps are using. </p><p>===<br>From WIRED:</p><p>The groups promoting neo-Nazi narratives are typically siloed in more fringe platforms, like Telegram, the encrypted messaging app. But Telegram has become a place to discuss recruitment techniques for TikTok specifically: White supremacist groups there share videos, images, and audio tracks that members can use, explicitly telling other members to cross-post the content on TikTok.</p><p>“We posted stuff on our brand new tiktok account with 0 followers but had more views than you could ever have on bitchute or twitter,” one account in a Neo-Nazi group posted on Telegram about their outreach on TikTok. “It just reaches much more people.”</p><p>Others have followed suit. One prominent neo-Nazi has often asked his thousands of Telegram followers to “juice,” or algorithmically boost, his TikTok videos to increase their viral potential.</p><p>===</p><p>The problem on TikTok, as in lots of other places, is that Nazis know how to speak in code so they don't get caught right away, they know how to game algorithms, and they seem to have boundless amounts of free time with which to do it. </p><p>I wish I had a solution to offer. I don't.</p><p>The WIRED article: <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-nazi-content-moderation/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.com/story/tiktok-nazi-co</span><span class="invisible">ntent-moderation/</span></a></p><p>The full ISD report: <a href="https://www.isdglobal.org/digital_dispatches/naztok-an-organized-neo-nazi-tiktok-network-is-getting-millions-of-views/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">isdglobal.org/digital_dispatch</span><span class="invisible">es/naztok-an-organized-neo-nazi-tiktok-network-is-getting-millions-of-views/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NeoNazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeoNazis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fcknzs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fcknzs</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TikTok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TikTok</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Telegram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Telegram</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ContentModeration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ContentModeration</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WIRED" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WIRED</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ISD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ISD</span></a></p>