On TikTok, Gaza’s Palestinians Plead to the World: ‘Don’t Scroll’ “TikTok has said that they really don’t want to have political content—that’s not what they want this platform to be for,” Laura Edelson, a researcher at Northeastern University who spent four months tracking the spread of pro-Palesetinian and pro-Israeli content on TikTok between early October 2023 and late January 2024.