Fake Housing TikToks feat. Katherine Denkinson (Premium E323)
This week Annie Kelly continues to report on the “London Has Fallen” trend in video content by bringing us even more London-based fake TikTok news. She is joined by guest Katherine Denkinson, who walks us through a story she reported on with London Centric concerning a TikTok account that was posting fake migrant housing rage bait. While editing this episode, more information came to light, so we invited Katherine back to provide an update on the situation, including the motives behind the hateful content.
Who’s secretly filming fake TikToks inside Londoner’s homes? - Article by London Centric
https://www.londoncentric.media/p/tiktok-london-immigrants-fake-news-house-tours
“Hate brings views”: Confessions of a London fake news TikToker - Article by London Centric
https://www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tiktok-fake-news-creator-hate-immigrants
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Kurt Caz' latest video in Italy is fucked ..
the jet 2 ai voice saying that shit is lowkey haunting
the man has the ignorance of a Tim Robinson character
An ex colleague of mine worked in a moderation role at TikTok in a London-based office. She said she and her team were told by her line manager to keep right wing content. Anti immigrant, Pro Israel and anti trans content specifically. The manager allegedly also instructed them to delete pro Palestine and queer content because that content "was pushing an agenda."
Instructions unclear. Made a TikTok about luxury British apartments illegally migrating to America.
Jake, ya should *really* look into a game called "Foxhole" by Siege Studios. Great alternate-reality top down isometric game from the folks who did the old Army Man games. It has a bit of a learning curve, but is one of the best online communities I have ever found. Fair warning that a good amount of the game is Regiment (clan) based and requires a good number of people and organization to unlock. But I've had a ton of fun over the years with it!
The mistake we all use to make is the assumption that any social media content policy was in place to protect people. It’s not. Allowing content like this on the platform is a feature, not a bug.
I want to caveat that I don’t live in London, so it may well be different there! But I do think maybe part of the reason this rage bait works so well is that in my experience as an American who currently lives in the UK is that the housing stock here is in *shockingly* bad condition. And I didn’t live in the fanciest places in the US, but just for the same price here it’s like. Things are actively falling apart. So it’s not just “oh the bathroom isn’t nice” it’s “oh the floor in the bathroom is peeling away and we don’t have hot water again.” And it is infuriating so I see how it’s fertile ground for rage bait.
100%
This one is for you Jake: Australia has its own version of "London is Falling" content, one of Australia's worst Hugo Lennon aka Auspill, went to ChinaTwn in Melbourne and did the EXACT thing you were comparing these dumb takes to. Check out Tom Tanuki's video on Instagram on Hugo Lennon/Auspill if you're interested in one of Australia's worst right-wing figures
I know Annie's work is good because it never fails to stress me out lol
Annie Kelly!
Why aren't you guys covering the epstein files nonstop right now?
You can go to Meidas Touch for nonstop coverage of Epstein Files....
This episode made me realize that tiktok is this generation's public access channels.
I love when Jake can't quite remember what cliche he was trying to use and creates a glorious new turn of phrase like "born on a golden toilet". It paints such a picture. Way better than whatever he was actually going for.
In one of the very first episodes of The Apprentice Trump took the contestants to his penthouse in Manhattan to show it off, including its golden toilet.
Genuine question: does anyone think there is any solution to the problem of individuals or organizations lying in the age of internet and social media?
I just realized that he's England's Pam Bondi. But the Dow Jones is over 50,000!!!
So basically this bloke is a money hungry knave.
The astroturfing is cannot be underestimated. And there is still a particular type of censorship these media corporations have indulged in more than ever, especially tiktok after the forced ownership change: any pro Palestine content. That guy may claim he had no racist in intent for his channel, which perhaps would be believable if he wasn't replying to people in his comments with specific racist language all the time. I know the laws are ridiculous here for this kind of stuff, but seriously he knew what he was doing, it's just weird assuming everyone is a baby brain when it comes to the people pushing far right propaganda. Also doesn't help now Elon got his beady-eyed sights on this sodden rock. - - - - There are specific long-term intents across the spectrum from the very top of western empire neo-colonial foreign policy to the ultra wealthy funding/astroturfing shit like GB news onto every TV available, to the budding influencer hopefuls who one way or another is made aware of J.Peterson or Andrew Tate due to the aforementioned parts of the disinfo megastructure.
Australia is also being whipped into a migrant panic. It's so easy to do, the racism is only ever just below the surface... 😢 I hope nobody here gets the idea to make content like this here...
Did anyone think of Exit West by Mohsin Hamid?
Love Annie but we got so much going on here can’t we focus on America First? Oh god… what have I become?? Jk but no seriously a Jake episode followed by an Annie episode just feels like maybe we can come back to that when the sky isn’t falling over the US?
When isn’t the sky falling in the us tho
I live in london. I know where my local asylum seekers stay. Its in the hotel we thought was dodgy as all hell in the 90s. When my kids were born in 2005, I warned visiting family that that wasn't where you wanted to stay. Its not been refurbished!
Idk if I can take another one of these
Follow ”the cradle” on YouTube
The rank racism in those tiktoks got a gasp out of me.
Welcome back Annie Kelly, sad to see more evidence that being xenophobic racists is not limited to the west side of the Atlantic.
Jake...did they even have online games until we were in our early twenties? This tech grew up with us...gen Z doesn't have that luxury...
Jake would have been like 11 or 12 in '95... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_online_games
Annie Kelly
100% his kid.
Nazi time yeehaw
National Baby
I’m also here
It’s gonna be a 10 can trip
2 min gang
Hell yeah
