Another addition to the cofa Blog Transcript Project
TRANSCRIPT: Sky News investigation finds over 70,000 TikTok posts using Nazi sounds (video linked at bottom]
[German language audio then] Announcer: Adolf Hitler delivering a speech that later descends into an antisemitic rant to a German public, ready for the far right in the 1930s. The pictures consigned to the past but the audio brought back to Vivid life in the present.
And it's earning tens of millions of likes on
TikTok.
Sky News has found Nazi speeches and marching music have been used as background sound on tens of thousands of TikTok videos, as far right groups try and spread their message.
To appeal to a wider audience, most of the
speeches are set to a type of music popular on TikTok called Drift Funk
without the Creator's permission or knowledge, and that could be all sorts cat videos, gismos, gaming or cars.
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It's a way to get content shared widely before
offering the user more Sinister stuff if they hit the sound button in the
corner of a post
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Here are a few of the most popular categories we have seen used. It's a way to
get content shared widely before offering the user more Sinister stuff if they
hit the sound button in the corner of a post, which shows them other videos
using the same sound.
For example, this is a more innocuous video of
a cat that looks like Hitler. We'll put that back into the stack. And this is a
huge stack. Here have a look at another type we've seen gaming. This video was
made using Minecraft the German dictator recreated in the game. Now this is
popular with children.
The owner of Minecraft, Microsoft, told us that
hate speech and terrorist content is strictly forbidden and they take action to
remove such content. But on TikTok there are posts that are just too graphic
to show, specifically antisemitic.
We've blurred this one here [1:37 on video] which shows images from gas
Chambers set to the same type of audio. And there's much more of this graphic
type of Content.
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72.000 posts with 21 million likes
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In fact Sky News has seen 72,000 posts
used in this way. Not only is that
number big but the level of Engagement
is high too. Between them these posts
have racked up 21 million likes, showing people are engaging with the videos. Well how are they
engaging. this is a good example.
An image of a Nuremberg rally accompanied by a Hitler speech. It's been liked by more than 56,000 users and in a comment there's been liked 1,695 times, one user states modern society needs him, another says we miss you.
It's difficult to know the motivations of the
people posting it it's probably a range from people who are knowingly spreading
white nationalist content to people who don't really understand but think it's
cool or funny. However, the impact on the victim is the same, which is the kind
of experience of hate of minority communities.
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Songs bolted onto Nazi content without the performer’s
knowledge
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This is one of the musicians whose songs have
been bolted onto Nazi content without their knowledge. The artist, Pastel
Ghost, told us-
“I was not previously aware that my music was
being used in this way and I find it shocking and deplorable.”
Sky News previously reported about Islamic State supporters using the same sounds loophole to gain more traction on
Tik Tok. We forwarded all the Nazi videos we found this time to Tik Tok and
asked the company for comment. The spokesperson told us this content was
immediately removed for breaching our strict policies against hate speech, we
regularly train our safety professionals and update our safeguards to detect
hateful behavior on an ongoing basis and we removed 91% of this type of content. Before it is reported to us, content we
flagged was taken down.
But it's still possible to find more century
old ideology of hate pushed by Cutting Edge algorithms to a massive modern
audience. Tom Cheshire Sky News
END OF TRANSCRIPT
Watch the video Sky
News investigation finds over 70,000 TikTok posts using Nazi sounds here
Https://www.youtube.com/watch?V=rit0lyc98aa&t=1s
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