Hochul rips TikTok over Osama Bin Laden letter, vows NY social media anti-hate teams won't 'penalize' politics
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul ripped TikTok and other social media for dissemination of hate, announcing new tools to prevent radicalization of young people.
"Give the teachers the tools they need to help these conversations in school," the governor said. "And by teaching younger New Yorkers about how to discern between digital fact and digital fiction, we can better inoculate them from hatred and the spread of it and help prepare them for a very fast-moving and often confusing world." Danielle Wallace is a reporter for Fox News Digital covering politics, crime, police and more. Story tips can be sent to danielle.wallace@fox.com and on Twitter: @danimwallace.
In the wake of the Buffalo, N.Y., mass shooting that left 10 dead at a grocery store in a historically Black neighborhood, Hochul said state authorities activated more surveillance of critical threats for harm online. And after the arrest of a Cornell student accused of making online threats to rape and kill Jewish students amid the Israel-Hamas war, the governor announced another $3 million investment on Tuesday to ensure every college campus in the state of New York has TAM, or threat assessment, teams to prevent hate-fueled crime before it occurs.