Nikki Haley says TikTok makes people ‘17% more antisemitic, more pro-Hamas’

Nikki Haley at the Republican debate. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images

The former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley claimed during the Republican presidential primary debate on Wednesday that watching TikTok made people “17% more antisemitic, more pro-Hamas” every 30 minutes.

“We really do need to ban TikTok once and for all and let me tell you why,” Haley said. “For every 30 minutes that someone watches TikTok every day they become 17% more antisemitic, more pro-Hamas based on doing that.”