Video promoting film featuring a discredited alternative history claiming Hitler had no desire to launch the Second World War is shared millions of times on the Chinese-owned platform. A Nazi propaganda film is being spread online by social media giant TikTok four months after it was alerted to the issue. Videos promoting the film Europa: The Last Battle, which features a discredited alternative history claiming Hitler had no desire to launch the Second World War, have been shared millions of times on the Chinese-owned platform. TikTok last year gave assurances that clips and links to the 12-hour film, which also denies the Holocaust took place, were being removed. However, it is still being promoted on its app. The film, which contains a succession of anti-Jewish tropes, including claims that communism was a Jewish ideology and that Jews own the world’s money supply, is still being widely spread by far-right activists. One neo-Nazi who has used TikTok to spread the narrative claims: “If you haven’t seen it, watch it… It’s definitely something the Democrats do not want you to see, which is why you can’t find it on YouTube.” Another post shows a man repeatedly making a Nazi salute with the caption “people after watching the last battle of europa”, while a further video, which was still online this week and has had 60,000 views, directs users to a website where they can watch the full film. A researcher at anti-racism group Hope not Hate, Gregory Davis, said the film simultaneously “denies the proven reality of the Holocaust whilst providing justifications for the violent antisemitism that fuelled it.
via thejc: TikTok is still hosting Nazi propaganda, despite warnings