BBC News Lies #2: Blaming TikTok for Social Unrest.
Or: "How to completely ignore the root causes of the breakdown of civil society."
In this second edition of BBC News Lies, we are looking at the BBC’s approach to understanding why young people are increasingly tearing everything apart.
Social media is a reflection of society, social media does not control society. BBC News would have you believe that TikTok is responsible for youth violence. As usual, it’s all lies. By pretending social media is guilty of this crime, the sheltered metropolitan elite are absolving themselves of all responsibility for pushing young people into politically radical and emotionally unhinged action. The writer, Marianna Spring, is ironically titled the “BBC disinformation and social media correspondent”. This particular correspondent is one of many engaged in disinformation about the role that extremist intersectional politics has played in our growing social unrest; specifically by ignoring it completely.
The article pretends that this new growing social unrest in the UK has nothing to do with teaching children that the entire free market system, and the entire history of this island, is uniquely evil. That its indigenous people are uniquely responsible for all suffering not just here, but globally. It avoids any notion that the total breakdown in effective policing and policing standards are also responsible for social unrest. It’s like the writer has forgotten that a near-pointless lockdown of all freedom and commerce occured in the last few years, and that the government in its short-sighted decision to print money has completely erased the value of our Pounds. The politically radical government absolves itself of all crimes committed upon the British family; no-fault divorce splitting up families, single-mother children on the express train to prison, financial incentives for not getting married, financing people who refuse to work, a heavily one-sided family court system, and a desperately failing foster care system that couldn’t even prevent children’s prolonged torture at the hands of rape gangs. Teach children to protest everything before thinking, and they’ll protest everything before thinking. Teach young adults that they can get away with committing crime, and they’ll get away with committing crime. Teach victims that police will do nothing to protect them, and the victims will resort to violence. Teach society that everything is evil, and society will want to destroy everything.
The default setting for any society is carnage, rape, suffering, genocide, torture, starvation, disease, and more. It is only over centuries of increasingly advanced structure that we’re at a point where we have electricity and gas delivered direct to our homes, where the supermarkets everywhere are filled with food, and advanced technologies can create increasingly marvelous devices. Creation is hard; destruction is easy, and it can take days to destroy centuries of hard work. In this review we will explore how the BBC lies about TikTok and the real causes of social unrest.
Link to article: BBC News Article: "TikTok frenzies 'putting police and schools under strain", by Marianna Spring.
“Police leaders and teachers' unions are warning that TikTok frenzies that encourage anti-social behaviour are putting a strain on public services.
It comes after the BBC revealed how disproportionate engagement driven by TikTok was linked to disruption.
The BBC found four recent examples, including public interference in the police investigation of Nicola Bulley's disappearance and school vandalism.”
We get 3 lies right in the first 3 sentences; first, that any strain on public services can be blamed on TikTok, second, that engagement on TikTok around anti-social behaviour is somehow “disproportionate”, and third, that TikTok users were alone in their obsession with a mysterious disappearance. To be clear, any strain on public services is mostly down to mismanagement, inefficient spending, a propensity to choose cumbersome and expensive options, and other such cost-effective spending disincentives unique to government institutions. In the case of police, it’s also down to them lowering standards, becoming obsessed with text on a screen (Twitter), and the total denigration of the entire force again and again by their commanders speaking fluent wokinese. The concept that engagement on TikTok towards anti-social trends is somehow “disproportionate” is a highly dubious claim; social media does not create trends, people create trends. Social media platforms wouldn’t make any money trying to artificially redirect people away from things that they are genuinely interested in. Regarding Nicola Bulley, it is a tale as old as time that bored people become obsessed with active mysteries. It’s nothing new, it’s nothing special. It’s just slightly different.
“These frenzies - where TikTok drives disproportionate amounts of engagement to some topics - were evidenced by interviews with former staffers, users of the app and BBC analysis of wider social media data.
The two other examples the BBC investigated were outside the UK - an online obsession with the murder of four students in the US state of Idaho that led to innocent people being falsely accused, and the suggestion that TikTok fanned the flames of recent riots in France.”
It seems to be a surprise to the journalist Marianna Spring that topics that drive high engagement receive high engagement. People since forever have been drawn towards exciting looking scenes. No doubt some clout-chasing, “social justice” oriented ex-staffers at TikTok are also shocked by this revelation. There’s also a really brutal lie told right at the end; blaming TikTok for fanning the flames of recent riots in France; the riots (and literal flames) in France were primarily and foremostly driven by the now millions of invaders that have broken into the country from cultures where there is no respect for the law and there is lots and lots of intersectional violence. It’s one of those incredible BBC News doublespeak moments; absolve the BBC and the European metropolitan elite of encouraging people from the most culturally backwards parts of the world to flood in and cause violence, whilst blaming a social media app.
“The chairwoman of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners (APCC) has also told the BBC she is "deeply concerned" by the added pressure that interference and anti-social behaviour by TikTok users puts on police.
Donna Jones called on the platform to take more responsibility for the impact of its design on its users.”
This is a particularly foul few lines, as Donna Jones, someone of great importance in the policing world, calls on TikTok to make changes. She doesn’t tell people to not commit crime; that would be too easy. But in nuance, she doesn’t tell the truth as to why police failures and radical government political ideologies are solely responsible for our civil unrest. It is a truly pathetic passing of the buck from police on the issue of crime. Just take that into your mind for a moment; police passing the buck for increased crime. It’s (again) a Chaucerian fraud; even if there was some blame to put here or there, a stoic and wise police leader with personal integrity would never blame anyone but themselves for their own failures. It’s beyond reprehensible.
“Teachers' unions have also expressed concern at how social media platforms were affecting behaviour amongst pupils.
Incidents often occur outside of school, but problems also tend to spill into school time, leaving teachers and leaders to deal with the fallout - says Geoff Barton, General Secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL).
"Although schools are able to report social media misuse, they are essentially at the mercy of technology companies and their terms of service," he adds.”
These few lines are of the same vein of the last few; it is perpetrators through idleness and inaction that are blaming the actions of others for their own failures. These teachers, for decades, have been teaching increasingly radical belief systems to their students; telling them they’re going to die from climate change, that they’re different depending on race, that their entire system is evil and corrupt, that they have no control over their destiny in our free market, that there’s no social mobility, that the only way to get your voice heard is through violence. Teachers have been telling kids these things for decades and are now acting surprised that it is coming back to bite them on the arse. As far as intersectional politics goes, that is exactly how it goes. No longer is a perceived “injustice” in school (a huge word usually used for a nothing issue) a subject of debate or discussion or contemplation or learning. It’s now the subject of violence and vandalism. Don’t like something? Riot. Disagree? Vandalise. The extreme politics creates extreme results, and the teachers are acting surprised. They too are engaged in the doublespeak of absolving themselves for their responsibility, and blaming a social media platform that only reflects what its users are searching.
“The government needs to take stronger action to keep schools safe for "students, staff and the wider community", says general secretary Dr Patrick Roach.
TikTok has previously distanced itself from outbreaks of disorder, such as the threatened looting of London's Oxford Street last month, which politicians blamed on the billion-user app.
London's Mayor Sadiq Khan reiterated his calls for social media companies including TikTok to "take more responsibility and clamp down on irresponsible and dangerous posts that incite violence and disorder".”
The good Doctor briefly flirts with the solution in his first statement. Yes, the government needs to take action; it needs to prosecute crimes! It’s a simple story as old as time! Show the people that the government maintains both a monopoly on violence and the moral authority to use it, and you’ll find civil unrest going down. If you let violence happen anywhere, and tell people you have no moral authority in the government, why act surprised when people are knifed to death, overdosing, suiciding and criminalising themselves every day? Destroying their own education, their own streets, their own communities. London Mayor Fuck His Name is the snakiest of snakes in this case. He’s been single handedly responsible in London for bringing about more racial tension than there has ever been before, with a constant barrage of anti-indigenous, ethno-socialist language that makes it clear that he is in deep in the “us” and “them” race politics that is growing racial division in this country. Just like the police chairwoman, just like the teachers unions, they are absolving themselves of their responsibility for fanning the flames of violence and unrest and foisting the entirety of the blame on TikTok. This most certainly has been the theme of this article.
“The BBC investigation was published in the same week a new law was passed in the UK parliament - the Online Safety Bill - aimed at making social media firms more responsible for users' safety on their platforms.
The government said the BBC's findings on TikTok frenzies highlighted "just how much it mattered" that it had taken "decisive action to prevent social media content from spiralling out of control and putting people at risk".”
One thing to note is the dubious usage of the word controversial in the BBC. Where I’ve seen it applied to highly uncontroversial things, it’s also never applied to highly controversial but politically correct things such as this Online Safety Bill. Without going into too much detail in this article, its bad news for everyone. It should also come as no shock to anyone that the arm of the elite metropolitan ideological orthodoxy is goose-stepping in stride with the government in its lies about the role social media plays in civil unrest. As if it is TikTok putting people at risk, or social media in general that has invented this civil unrest. The foisting of responsibility. Something a politician might do when they have no moral character, no interest in the country, and no love for the culture or its indigenous people.
“A spokesperson for TikTok told the BBC in a statement it recommends different types of content to interrupt repetitive patterns for users, removes "harmful misinformation" and reduces the reach of videos with unverified information.
It also told the BBC that users "naturally" took more of an interest in stories at "moments of national conversation, which are intensified by 24-hour news reporting".
They also pointed out that the BBC has posted on TikTok about many stories like this.”
It’s a hilarious way to end the article; yes, TikTok obviously have a financial incentive to make sure their users aren’t committing crimes. Yes, people are more drawn to exciting stories, and of course, BBC News itself is guilty of this crime too by apparently participating in everything that the writer Marianna Spring has been criticising up and down this article. Not once was there even a hint of suggestion that there are some clear root causes to the growing intersectional hatred and random violence we see in this country. The biggest irony in the case of this whole article is that most of the organisation for violence happens on Whatsapp, Telegram, SMS, and phone calls; and you can’t blame “algorithms” for that. You can only blame criminals and the government, and the BBC can’t be doing that.
Maybe Marianna can go away and have a think; does the 24-hour news cycle create unrest… or does unrest make the news?