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School leaders and psychologists fear for students' safety on social media as Hamas pledges to broadcast its murders of hostages.American and Israeli schools are encouraging parents to have their children delete social media, anticipating that Hamas terrorists will weaponize popular apps to publicize the gruesome killings of hostages.
“It’s hard for us, it’s impossible for us, to digest all of the content displayed on various social networks,” said the note, whichtranslated from Hebrew. A separate letter in Hebrew called on parents to delete Facebook and Telegram from their kids’ phones, in addition to TikTok. “The videos and testimonies we are currently exposed to are bigger and crueler than our souls can contain.”
TikTok and Meta did not immediately respond to requests for comment about the schools’ concerns and how the companies are approaching the possibility that Hamas terrorists may try to weaponize mainstream platforms to spread these violent videos.that it does not allow “violent and hateful organizations or individuals” on the platform. That includes violent extremists, criminal or hate organizations and individual perpetrators of mass violence, they say.
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