Chinese-owned social media giant TikTok is profiting from videos of displaced families in Syrian refugee camps begging for donations. The company reportedly takes up to 70 percent of the proceeds from such livestreams.
The video trend was reportedly facilitated by people known as “TikTok middlemen,” who arrived at the Syrian camps to help families create accounts on the platform, and then provided them with the phones and equipment to make live videos.
One of the Syrian families going live on TikTok every day includes Mona Ali Al-Karim and her six daughters — one of whom is blind — who sit on the floor of their tent for hours, repeating the few English words they know: “Please like, please share, please gift.” After TikTok refused to answer how much money it makes from the gifts, BBC News conducted an experiment to track how much money the begging families receive.
After the livestream, the balance of the Syrian test account was $33, meaning that TikTok had taken 69 percent of the money.
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