Sacha Baron Cohen Tells TikTok Leaders They Are ‘Creating the Biggest Antisemitic Movement Since the Nazis’
As surging numbers of progressive Zoomers use TikTok to voice their antisemitism, support for Hamas, and praise of Osama bin Laden, a group of left-wing Jewish celebrities is sounding the alarm, reportedly urging TikTok leaders to take action.
Actors including Sacha Baron Cohen, Debra Messing, and Amy Schumer spoke with TikTtok executives on Wednesday night when the conversation grew fiery, according to a New York Times report about the private call.
“What is happening at TikTok is it is creating the biggest antisemitic movement since the Nazis,” said Cohen,
“Shame on you,” Cohen told TikTok’s head of operations Adam Presser.
Will & Grace star Debra Messing said TikTok — which is a China-owned company — has become “the main platform for the dissemination of Jew hate.”
The actress focused on the growing popularity of the expression “from the river to the sea” — the Palestinian slogan calling for the eradication of Israel from the map. The chant has become a trendy expression among young progressives, many of whom are posting it to the comments sections of Jewish users.
TikTok leaders prevaricated when it came to company policy regarding the antisemitic slogan.
“Where it is clear exactly what they mean — ‘kill the Jews, eradicate the state of Israel’ — that content is violative and we take it down,” Presser reportedly said on the call.
“Our approach up until October 7, continuing to today, has been that for instances where people use the phrase where it’s not clear, where someone is just using it casually, then that has been considered acceptable speech.”
Messing wasn’t buying it.
The actress argued it was “much more responsible to bar it at this juncture than to say, ‘Oh, well, some people, they use it in a different way than it actually was created to mean.’” She added” “I understand that you are in a very, very difficult and complicated place, but you also are the main platform for the dissemination of Jew hate.”
TikTok has become a cesspool of anti-Jewish hate in the weeks since Hamas terrorists launched their massacre of Israelis on October 7.
Phrases including “Hitler was right” or “I hope you end up like Anne Frank” have become commonplace on the social media platform.
This week, left-wing TikTokers started praising Osama bin Laden, claiming the 9/11 terrorist attacks were justified because bin Laden belonged to an “oppressed” group.
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Lawsuit: Company Controlling Political Robocalls and Texts Is Biased Against Conservatives, Riddled with China Ties
A recent lawsuit accuses the authority for political robocalls and text messages in the U.S. of discriminating against Republican candidates, as well as having concerning ties to foreign governments.
In 2019 and 2020, Congress imposed strict regulations on robocalls and other forms of political messaging used in nearly every political campaign nationwide; however, it did not mandate the FCC or a comparable government entity enforce these news laws. As a result, the phone carriers provided a government-sanctioned monopoly to a third-party company called The Campaign Registry to do this vetting. It contracts much of its message vetting to a private company, Aegis Mobile.
In September, Williams Peters, the co-founder of The Campaign Registry, filed a lawsuit against Kaleyra, now The Campaign Registry’s parent company. His suit alleges that, after Kaleyra acquired the company and while Peters served as the Vice President of Finance, The Campaign Registry tried to actively stop the campaign messages of certain Republican candidates. The alleged acts include successfully halting Kari Lake’s Arizona governor campaign’s messages for two weeks in September 2022.
“When Mr. Peters and others learned what was happening, Mr. Peters asked [TCR Operations Head Ricardo Covero] to report what he had learned to Campaign Registry management, specifically to Soren Schafft (TCR CEO), Tor Soevik (TCR COO), Stefan Heller (TCR VP Business Development) and Michael Ford (TCR VP Operations),” the suit reads. “They told Mr. Cavero to let it go and not do anything. Mr. Peters reported this to the FBI through his attorney in September 2022 and by direct interview in Washington, DC on October 20, 2022.”
Peters’ suit also alleges that Kaleyra refused to seek review by the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States regarding its ownership of The Campaign Registry. CFIUS is chaired by the U.S. Treasury Secretary and reviews foreign investments in the United States.
According to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, Kaleyra-GigCapital has Chinese investors, including Hong Kong Permanent Shine Limited and Y Intercept Hong Kong Ltd. This raises questions about the company’s ties to China and the Chinese Communist Party’s potential ability to obtain the sensitive personal information of U.S. candidates and their affiliated campaigns, staff, donors, and supporters.
According to Peters’ lawsuit, Telecommunications Company Repatriation, a U.S. entity that seeks to return “critical and essential telecommunications and Internet services that have been acquired, in whole or in part, by China and other foreign entities that intend to usurp U.S. technology for their own commercial and political benefit,” published an open letter expressing concern about The Campaign Registry’s foreign ownership.
“To this date, Kaleyra has refused to answer two very critical questions: What percentage of your company is owned, directly or indirectly, by individuals or entities associated with the People’s Republic of China? And, do Chinese nationals and other foreign entities have access, direct or indirect, to the Campaign Registry’s critical infrastructure and customer data?,” the letter states, according to Peters’ suit. “TCR Acquisition believes that Kaleyra refuses to respond because the answer to both questions is ‘yes.’”
This comes on the heels of multiple reports demonstrating China’s growing attempts to influence the American political system and conduct potential privacy and national security-compromising espionage against the United States.
China has implemented a policy known as Military-Civil Fusion, which stipulates that every company operating within its borders must hand over data and information deemed beneficial for advancing the Chinese Communist Party’s interests.
Adding to potential concerns about this potential Chinese influence and data collection vacuum is that Aegis Mobile, the company that The Campaign Registry contracts with for political vetting, has a checkered history of facing regulatory ire regarding its data collection practices.
In 2013-2014, Aegis faced Federal Trade Commission litigation for allegedly failing to comply with government subpoenas. Moreover, in 2020, the FCC also severely criticized Aegis Mobile (then a quality control contractor for Verizon) for failing to implement adequate vetting procedures or provide transparency to the FCC following the disclosure of Verizon customers’ location data to a third party without its consent.
Breitbart News has reached out to Kaleyra for comment.
The case is Peters v. Kaleyra, Inc., 1:23-cv-01051-UNA in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware.
Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News. He is the author of #DELETED: Big Tech’s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal The Election.
Either Get Rid of TikTok or Just Surrender to China
"TikTok is undoing all of that. It's crazy to watch in real time."
In its latest social experiment, Communist China decided to test an algorithm to see if it could get social media influencers and idiot kids under its control on TikTok to come out for Osama bin Laden.
Worked pretty well.
Now that the test is over, TikTok announced that the Osama trend has been shut down. But it was successful.
TikTok’s hot new social-media influencer is . . . Osama bin Laden. Yes, the terrorist who plotted 9/11 went viral this week, and not in a good way. Users have been posting videos to the Chinese-owned app, urging their followers to read bin Laden’s 2002 “letter to America,” while suggesting he was on to something. “I will never look at this country the same,” one user said.
Giving Hollywood and public school teachers control of our kids was a bad idea. Giving Chinese Communist algorithms control over our kids is a much worse idea.
A TikTok influencer went viral this week for promoting Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to America.”
Online personality and pro-Palestinian activist Lynette Adkins urged her over 175,000 TikTok followers on Tuesday to read the words of the terrorist mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks.
“I need everyone to stop what they’re doing right now and go read- It’s literally two pages. Go read ‘A Letter to America,” Adkins said the video. “And please come back here and just let me know what you think because I feel like I’m going through, like, an existential crisis right now and a lot of people are, so I just need someone else to be feeling this.”
Another TikTok user raeyreads posted the entire letter on her page which received over 640,000 views despite having only 1,300 followers.
“We’ve been lied to our entire lives,” raeyreads wrote Monday. “I remember watching people cheer when Osama was found and killed. I was a child, and it confused me. It still confuses me today. The world deserves better than what this country has done to them. Change must be made.”
Change must be made. It begins with prying Communist China off our phones and away from our kids.
A forced sale or a ban on TikTok is elementary national security. Trump went ahead with it. And yet once there were efforts at passing legislation, TikTok executives managed to buy up AOC, and leftist and some fake right-wing influencers who started screaming that unless we give China access to our phones and kids, we’ll lose our rights.
Commenters who had never commented before here showed up screaming in defense of TikTok.
And you know the rest of the story. TikTok survived. I’m not sure America will.
Giving our leading geopolitical foe direct access to much of our population and the opportunity to program our kids in real time is a hell of a move.
“TikTok is going to save this generation,” Adkins said. “The amount of things that we’ve learned on this app in this past month alone that other people in other generations I tried to talk to them about it, they don’t understand. They don’t get it because they’ve been literally so programmed to think a certain way TikTok is undoing all of that. It’s crazy to watch in real time.”
What’s crazy is that we’re letting them do this.
If we can’t ban TikTok, then why bother fighting? Forget standing up for Taiwan, the South China Sea or Hawaii. We can’t even manage to stand up for our kids and our country. And the moment we do, some paid influencers will take a few hundred bucks to take a break from pushing Osama bin Laden to warn that Chinese Communist spyware must be protected from government interference.
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China Mocks San Fran, Says It’s Willing to Clean Up Streets Only for Foreigners – Not ‘for the Sake of Its Own People’
China’s state-controlled media are mocking how San Francisco’s drug, filth and homeless problems “miraculously disappeared overnight” ahead of this week’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in the city.
The clean-up shows San Francisco can – but, won’t – address the city’s problems for the sake of its citizens, China’s Global Times reports:
“San Francisco's clean street and the disappearance of homeless people demonstrate the city has the ability to address the malaise but only seems willing to do so when an international summit is approaching rather than for the sake of its own people.”
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“[T]he real concern for San Francisco residents is why the government can solve century-old problems that have plagued the city for the president but cannot solve these problems for ordinary people.”
The Global Times also posted before-and-after photos of a street in the city first published by The San Francisco Standard. The photos were also widely circulated by China’s largest government-controlled social media outlet, Weibo.
“There’s a lot of money coming into this conference, and none of that is being set aside for unhoused people who are being displaced,” Coalition on Homelessness Executive Director Jennifer Friedenbach says in the article. “They’re just moving people around.”
Reporters from the Czech Republic didn’t have the same protection from the reality of San Francisco’s dangers, however. Over the weekend, the city’s façade was exposed when a Czech film crew was robbed of equipment and footage worth more than $18,000.
What’s more, the robbery wasn’t an isolated incident in San Francisco, as local television crews have reportedly resorted to traveling with armed guards.
At a press event, Democrat California Governor Gavin Newsom acknowledged the pretense of San Francisco’s clean-up effort:
“I know folks say ‘Oh, they’re only cleaning up this place because all those fancy leaders are coming into town.’
“That’s true, because it’s true.”
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China’s state-controlled media are mocking how San Francisco’s drug, filth and homeless problems “miraculously disappeared overnight” ahead of this week’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in the city.
The clean-up shows San Francisco can – but, won’t – address the city’s problems for the sake of its citizens, China’s Global Times reports:
“San Francisco's clean street and the disappearance of homeless people demonstrate the city has the ability to address the malaise but only seems willing to do so when an international summit is approaching rather than for the sake of its own people.”
….
“[T]he real concern for San Francisco residents is why the government can solve century-old problems that have plagued the city for the president but cannot solve these problems for ordinary people.”
The Global Times also posted before-and-after photos of a street in the city first published by The San Francisco Standard. The photos were also widely circulated by China’s largest government-controlled social media outlet, Weibo.
“There’s a lot of money coming into this conference, and none of that is being set aside for unhoused people who are being displaced,” Coalition on Homelessness Executive Director Jennifer Friedenbach says in the article. “They’re just moving people around.”
Reporters from the Czech Republic didn’t have the same protection from the reality of San Francisco’s dangers, however. Over the weekend, the city’s façade was exposed when a Czech film crew was robbed of equipment and footage worth more than $18,000.
What’s more, the robbery wasn’t an isolated incident in San Francisco, as local television crews have reportedly resorted to traveling with armed guards.
At a press event, Democrat California Governor Gavin Newsom acknowledged the pretense of San Francisco’s clean-up effort:
“I know folks say ‘Oh, they’re only cleaning up this place because all those fancy leaders are coming into town.’
“That’s true, because it’s true.”
US Lawmakers Question Apple CEO Whether Cancellation of Jon Stewart’s Show Was Related to China Commentary
11/16/2023Updated:11/16/20230:003:12House of Representative members leading a special committee questioned Apple CEO Tim Cook on Wednesday concerning the tech company’s choice to cancel Jon Stewart’s Apple TV+ talk show because the host was planning a segment on China.
The letter addressed whether or not the streaming giant was reticent about having China as the subject material of one of the series' episodes, as originally reported by Variety. In essence, it emphasized the importance of an open exchange of ideas. It was signed by the leaders of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Community Party (CCP), including Chair Rep. Michael Gallagher (R-Wis.) and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.), the panel’s ranking Democrat.Allegedly, Mr. Stewart had previously mentioned to staff members that possible upcoming topics for his show, including China and artificial intelligence, were raising concerns among Apple executives. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Apple approached Mr. Stewart and informed the host that both sides needed to be “aligned” regarding show topics.
House of Representative members leading a special committee questioned Apple CEO Tim Cook on Wednesday concerning the tech company’s choice to cancel Jon Stewart’s Apple TV+ talk show because the host was planning a segment on China.
CCP's Influence on American Artists
“If these reports are accurate, it potentially speaks to broader concerns about indirect Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence over the creative expression of American artists and companies on CCP-related topics,” the lawmakers wrote in their letter released Wednesday.“It also highlights an additional reason, beyond the traditionally cited national security rationales, why we encourage Apple to accelerate its efforts to reduce its dependence on the PRC in its core business,” it said, referring to China’s official name, People’s Republic of China.
The letter also stated: “The strategic competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party is not just about military, economic, or even technological power; it’s also about values. And few values distinguish our system from the CCP more sharply than the responsible and open exchange of ideas through creative expression, without the improper interference of foreign powers.”
“It also highlights an additional reason, beyond the traditionally cited national security rationales, why we encourage Apple to accelerate its efforts to reduce its dependence on the PRC in its core business,” it said, referring to China’s official name, People’s Republic of China.
Companies Shouldn’t Be Influenced by Foreign Powers
The letter concluded, “While companies have the right to determine what content is appropriate for their streaming service, the coercive tactics of a foreign power should not be directly or indirectly influencing these determinations.”“The Problem With Jon Stewart” debuted in 2021 on Apple TV+ as part of a multiyear first-look deal Mr. Stewart signed with Apple. The one-hour series addressed a topic in each episode, with each topic related to current national events or Mr. Stewart’s advocacy work. Topics included climate change, globalization, gun control, incarceration, racism, and the media.
“The Problem With Jon Stewart” debuted in 2021 on Apple TV+ as part of a multiyear first-look deal Mr. Stewart signed with Apple. The one-hour series addressed a topic in each episode, with each topic related to current national events or Mr. Stewart’s advocacy work. Topics included climate change, globalization, gun control, incarceration, racism, and the media.
AND TO THINK, BIDEN WANTS PRO-CHINA NEWSOM TO BE V.P. RUNNING MATE ELECTED BY ILLEGALS!
An Illegal Chinese Biolab Containing Infectious Diseases Operated in California. The Feds Ignored It for Months.
Congressional probe warns of ‘profound threat’ to U.S. homeland
November 16, 2023A biolab illicitly run by a Chinese national in California contained traces of coronavirus, HIV, malaria, and other infectious diseases, but federal authorities spent months ignoring pleas from local officials to shut the site down, according to a report from congressional investigators.
The lab was discovered in December 2022, when officers in Reedley, California, a rural town of 26,000 residents, accidentally stumbled on the nondescript warehouse. Once inside, "several individuals who identified themselves as PRC nationals'' were seen working "with thousands of vials of biological substances," according to a months-long investigation by the House Select Committee on China published Thursday and provided to the Washington Free Beacon.
The makeshift lab—run by a Chinese national—contained live mice and freezers filled with improperly stored "pathogens and other unknown biological and chemical substances." It was determined the lab was housing a witch’s brew of infectious diseases, including HIV, the coronavirus, "infectious parasites," and a storage area marked "Ebola." While local officials in Reedley contacted the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to report the findings, the federal government spent months ignoring the city’s pleas for assistance and only became involved after a member of Congress began applying pressure earlier this year.
The discovery of the lab, and the federal government’s slow response, "presents a grave national security risk that could be exploited in the future," according to the congressional committee’s findings. It is unknown if other unlicensed China-tied biolabs are operating in the United States and what types of diseases they could be experimenting with under unsafe conditions, congressional investigators said. If the pathogens discovered in the Reedley lab leaked, an untold number of Americans could have fallen ill.
Authorities determined the lab was run by Jiabei "Jesse" Zhu, a Chinese national who had "previously stolen millions of dollars of intellectual property from American companies and was part of an ongoing transnational criminal enterprise with ties to the PRC for which he was ultimately charged in federal court," according to the report.
During its months-long investigation into the matter, congressional investigators found the CDC ignored in-depth reports about the lab’s activities and then performed an inadequate review of the site.
The federal agency’s conduct prevented many of the substances found in the lab from being analyzed, and investigators do not know exactly what was being tested at the lab.
After local and state authorities discovered the lab and its contents, they reached out to the CDC beginning in March of this year.
"Local officials spent months repeatedly trying to obtain assistance from the CDC, both directly and through" the California Department of Public Health, investigators determined. "According to local officials, the CDC refused to speak with them and, on a number of occasions, it was reported by local officials that the CDC hung up on them mid-conversation."
Other federal agencies capable of handling biohazardous materials also ignored the city’s requests for assistance.
The CDC arrived at the site in May, after Rep. Jim Costa (D., Calif.), the city’s member of Congress, began applying pressure.
Once there, authorities discovered a host of lethal diseases, including "‘at least 20 potentially infectious agents,’ including HIV, Tuberculosis, and the deadliest known form of Malaria."
However, "CDC officials confirmed that the CDC made this list of pathogens based solely on the labels that were placed on samples," according to the report. "The CDC did not test these samples to assess whether the listed labels were correct or otherwise in a cipher that the workers used for a more dangerous pathogen." The CDC also did not test vials labeled "COVID."
The federal agency’s failure to investigate the lab left "local officials unable to assess the danger to the City of Reedley community, or inform the community about what steps, if any, it should take to protect public safety," investigators determined.
"At a minimum," the House committee said, "the Reedley Biolab shows the profound threat that unlicensed and unknown biolabs pose to our country. At worst, this investigation revealed significant gaps in our nation’s defenses and pathogen-related regulations that present a grave national security risk that could be exploited in the future."
A biolab illicitly run by a Chinese national in California contained traces of coronavirus, HIV, malaria, and other infectious diseases, but federal authorities spent months ignoring pleas from local officials to shut the site down, according to a report from congressional investigators.
The lab was discovered in December 2022, when officers in Reedley, California, a rural town of 26,000 residents, accidentally stumbled on the nondescript warehouse. Once inside, "several individuals who identified themselves as PRC nationals'' were seen working "with thousands of vials of biological substances," according to a months-long investigation by the House Select Committee on China published Thursday and provided to the Washington Free Beacon.
The makeshift lab—run by a Chinese national—contained live mice and freezers filled with improperly stored "pathogens and other unknown biological and chemical substances." It was determined the lab was housing a witch’s brew of infectious diseases, including HIV, the coronavirus, "infectious parasites," and a storage area marked "Ebola." While local officials in Reedley contacted the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to report the findings, the federal government spent months ignoring the city’s pleas for assistance and only became involved after a member of Congress began applying pressure earlier this year.
The discovery of the lab, and the federal government’s slow response, "presents a grave national security risk that could be exploited in the future," according to the congressional committee’s findings. It is unknown if other unlicensed China-tied biolabs are operating in the United States and what types of diseases they could be experimenting with under unsafe conditions, congressional investigators said. If the pathogens discovered in the Reedley lab leaked, an untold number of Americans could have fallen ill.
Authorities determined the lab was run by Jiabei "Jesse" Zhu, a Chinese national who had "previously stolen millions of dollars of intellectual property from American companies and was part of an ongoing transnational criminal enterprise with ties to the PRC for which he was ultimately charged in federal court," according to the report.
During its months-long investigation into the matter, congressional investigators found the CDC ignored in-depth reports about the lab’s activities and then performed an inadequate review of the site.
The federal agency’s conduct prevented many of the substances found in the lab from being analyzed, and investigators do not know exactly what was being tested at the lab.
After local and state authorities discovered the lab and its contents, they reached out to the CDC beginning in March of this year.
"Local officials spent months repeatedly trying to obtain assistance from the CDC, both directly and through" the California Department of Public Health, investigators determined. "According to local officials, the CDC refused to speak with them and, on a number of occasions, it was reported by local officials that the CDC hung up on them mid-conversation."
Other federal agencies capable of handling biohazardous materials also ignored the city’s requests for assistance.
The CDC arrived at the site in May, after Rep. Jim Costa (D., Calif.), the city’s member of Congress, began applying pressure.
Once there, authorities discovered a host of lethal diseases, including "‘at least 20 potentially infectious agents,’ including HIV, Tuberculosis, and the deadliest known form of Malaria."
However, "CDC officials confirmed that the CDC made this list of pathogens based solely on the labels that were placed on samples," according to the report. "The CDC did not test these samples to assess whether the listed labels were correct or otherwise in a cipher that the workers used for a more dangerous pathogen." The CDC also did not test vials labeled "COVID."
The federal agency’s failure to investigate the lab left "local officials unable to assess the danger to the City of Reedley community, or inform the community about what steps, if any, it should take to protect public safety," investigators determined.
"At a minimum," the House committee said, "the Reedley Biolab shows the profound threat that unlicensed and unknown biolabs pose to our country. At worst, this investigation revealed significant gaps in our nation’s defenses and pathogen-related regulations that present a grave national security risk that could be exploited in the future."
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