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Armed Myanmar soldiers and police using TikTok to deliver death threats
- Friday | 5th March, 2021
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Armed Myanmar soldiers and police are using TikTok to deliver death threats to protesters against last month’s coup, researchers said, leading the Chinese video-sharing app to announce it was removing content that incites violence. “It’s just the tip of the iceberg,” said MIDO executive director Htaike Htaike Aung, who said there were “hundreds” of videos of threatening uniformed soldiers and police on the app. TikTok is the latest social media platform to suffer a proliferation of menacing content, hate speech, and misinformation in Myanmar. Already growing fast in Myanmar, TikTok saw a strong rise in downloads after the military banned Facebook last month. Activists say they recently saw a rash of pro-military videos on TikTok accusing “third parties” of being responsible for the death of protesters killed during demonstrations.
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