TikTok CEO Addresses Antisemitism Concerns Amid Calls for Regulation

Shou Chew meets with Jewish groups and tech leaders, as lawmakers renew calls for TikTok's regulation due to potential Beijing influence.

TikTok CEO Shou Chew has been meeting with Jewish groups and business leaders to address concerns of anti-Israel and antisemitic rhetoric on the platform.
Lawmakers have renewed calls to ban or regulate TikTok, arguing that Beijing may be influencing the content it promotes.
TikTok has hired more Arabic and Hebrew-speaking moderators and has been working with Jewish and Muslim groups to better identify instances of antisemitism and Islamophobia on the platform.
Jewish tech leaders met with TikTok’s CEO to raise concerns that the platform is biased toward Pro-Palestine content.
TikTok denies that its algorithm is artificially skewed in any way and asserts that the imbalance of views for content that’s categorized under pro-Palestine versus pro-Israel hashtags is not the product of any kind of intended or unintended bias in its algorithms.