Delhi riots turned into music videos
| | | | | | | TikTok offers a very different view of the Delhi riots. If the footage shared on Twitter was a documentation of the Delhi riots, the videos on TikTok are a personal expression of the riots by those who — judging by the camera angles — were present amidst the rioters, if not participants themselves.
In much the same way that the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act of 2019 revealed how a whole new generation of young people had been drawn into a defence of India’s secular constitution, the TikTok videos of the riots reveal how the counter-protests have deep reservoirs of support as well. TikTok also has a significantly younger user base compared to more entrenched platforms like Twitter, so the videos offer a glimpse into a very different Indian demographic.
And while a robust ecosystem of fact-checking sites regularly debunk fake news on Facebook and Twitter, TikTok mostly flies under the radar — making it a fertile ground for hate speech and misinformation. |
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