Open Organisation Driving Anti-Extremism Safeguards to Combat ISIL Using TikTok and Competitors to Spread Propaganda to Children

ISIL Using TikTok to Spread Propaganda to Children

The Telegraph published a detailed article reporting ISIL's targeted use of TikTok, the viral video app popular with teenagers, to spread propaganda to unsuspecting children.

TikTok is one of few mainstream social media services I do not maintain an account.

TikTok users share music and videos to their followers. The content of the content shared on TikTok has been the subject of a few court cases in the last few years.

The content is often consumed by teenagers when the original publication (e.g. explicit music videos) are certified for consumption by adults (18+).

Open Organisation Driving Anti-Extremism Safeguards

I would like to see the Governments of Five Eyes countries (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States of America) pass laws surrounding all public social media apps to implement anti-extremism safeguards.

I encourage the largest social media (including instant messaging) companies to launch open anti-terrorism safeguard communities for sharing data and software to provide widespread automation of the removal of extremist content from Worldwide platforms.

Facebook, Habbohi5, Instagram, LinkedIn, Qzone, Reddit, Renren, Sina Weibo, Tagged, TikTok, Tumblr, Twitter, VK, VSCO, WeChat, WhatsApp, YouTube, etc. working together.

Smaller social media platforms, such as my favourite Ello, may require vast amounts of open support in scaling security during a rampant explosion of exposure, "explosure," which may drive malicious actors to the platform to recruit or to misinform the platform users.

Social media platforms are being considered as addictive given teenager and adult tendency to need to check-in at increasingly demanding frequencies throughout the day.