Jewish TikTok creators ‘don’t feel safe’ on the platform

Several Jewish creators said they feel they've been subjected to a type of censorship, with the app regularly flagging and removing their content.

SINCE EARLY MAY, Every Friday evening, Julia Massey said, she gets the same notification from TikTok: She's been banned from posting for a week.

Massey, 19, of California, a Jewish creator on the app, said that she could be posting a video of herself baking a loaf of challah or a clip of her cat but tat the outcome is always the same.

"It just repeats and repeats until I'm basically entirely incapable of interacting whatsoever on the app," she said. Massey consistently uploads videos to her account, but she said it's been a fight to get those videos to stay up.

Jewish creators say speaking about their Judaism on TikTok comes with a price. Comment sections on the content of Jewish TikTokers are often filled with antisemitic remarks, stereotypes and slurs. Some Jewish creators say they have to think about whether they want to disclose their Judaism, knowing the harassment they're likely to be subjected to.

FULL STORY Jewish TikTok creators say they 'don't feel safe' on the platform (Today/NBC News)

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Photo: Tommer and Yossi of JewCrazy, Julia Massey and Josh Cohen (Shahrzad Elghanayan/NBC News)