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Jewish and Israeli employees of the Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok are beginning to speak out about what they say is an increasingly hostile and insecure work environment, including harassment, personal attacks and even boycotts, since Hamas carried out its massacre in Israel Oct. 7 and Israel’s subsequent war in Gaza.

In interviews with Fox Business, Jewish employees said they have received little support from senior management since Hamas attacked Israel
and believe the company has lost control over the app’s 40,000 moderators, who, they maintain, allow claims proven to be false and antisemitic and anti-Israel content to remain on the site based on their personal views with little fact-checking.

Jewish employees told Fox Business antisemitic and anti-Israel sentiments are expressed freely by other employees on the company’s internal chat system, Lark, which includes a recently created support group dedicated to the Palestinians but no such option for Israelis because the company considered it too political.

The company told employees to utilize an existing Jewish support group, even though not all Israelis are Jews and Hamas targeted both Jews and non-Jews. A spokesperson for TikTok said the company disputed these claims and said they “do not reflect the experience of the majority of our employees.”

“TikTok has strong policies against discrimination and harassment in the workplace, and employees are encouraged to report their concerns – anonymously if they so choose,” the spokesperson said. “Every incident is investigated by the appropriate internal team.” 

“Our CEO sent a message to all employees denouncing the attacks of Oct. 7, and the company published a statement on our website as well,” the spokesperson added. “TikTok has had an internal group called MazalTok, to provide resources and a community for our Jewish and Israeli employees that has doubled in size since the start of the war.”.