Conor Cummins, a 42-year-old preschool teacher for deaf and hard of hearing children from the San Francisco Bay area, was scrolling through his For You feed on TikTok late one night when an account called @syrian_tragedy caught his eye.
The video featured a bearded man kneeling in front of the camera, with several children behind him. The man was imploring anyone who was watching to donate to his TikTok profile by giving him gifts through TikTok’s live stream functionality. The kids were doing much the same.
