{"id":18401,"date":"2022-01-31T11:43:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T16:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=18401"},"modified":"2022-02-02T10:23:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T15:23:50","slug":"tiktok-partners-unesco-wjc-to-combat-holocaust-denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/tiktok-partners-unesco-wjc-to-combat-holocaust-denial\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok Partners UNESCO, WJC To Combat Holocaust Denial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To address the issue of Holocaust denial, TikTok announced plans to provide verified information to those interested in the topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TikTok explained that from now on, if people are looking for a term related to the Holocaust, they will see a banner at the top of the results page, prompting them to visit a WJC and UNESCO website (aboutholocaust.org) to learn more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another strategy for providing verified information is to show users the site when they look up hashtags such as #HolocaustSurvivor or #HolocaustRemembrance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company also confirmed that in the future it will place a permanent banner at the bottom of every video about the Holocaust to direct users to verified information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We believe education plays a critical role in striking out hate. Hateful behavior is incompatible with TikTok&#8217;s inclusive environment, and we&#8217;ll continue to put our full strength behind keeping our platform a place that is free of hate while harnessing the power of TikTok to educate our community,&#8221; said Elizabeth Kanter, TikTok&#8217;s Director of Government Relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To achieve its goal of fighting Holocaust denial, TikTok will work with UNESCO and the World Jewish Congress (WJC).<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-60156673\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> on the BBC.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To address the issue of Holocaust denial, TikTok announced plans to provide verified information to those interested in the topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[143],"class_list":["post-18401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networks","tag-tiktok"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18401"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18445,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18401\/revisions\/18445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}