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Just drilling down on it, was there a reaction to something that was real or something that was just sort of goofing off so it is the reaction, a bunch of students starting to get nervous and saying, be careful, tomorrow is violence day, then the parents and the school districts see it. you saw this ratcheting up. so this is a specific perpetrator, you want to investigate them and what is their online identification and tiktok has probably already figured out if they can who it is and will give ...

Sorry, our kids would not be back in school and no one wants that. so we have to figure out a way to interpret this intelligence better. >> this is a new threat environment, right? once again social media has a big role in all of this. how do you feel about how tiktok has responded? >> i thought theyve been good, theyve been pushing back on the response saying were a social media platform, we cater to teenagers for the most part or young people for most part and so were trying to figure out what...

For any evidence to substantiate the possibility of potential violence at schools and it said it cant find any. all it is finding are these vague warnings, encouraging people to stay home from school. and it is removing those warnings, according to tiktok spokesperson because the -- it represents misinformation on the platform and it violates the companys misinformation policy based on what theyre hearing from law enforcement, and school officials, these tiktok warning videos are, you know, are ...

Violence to carry out an attack, thereby making some -- fulfilling peoples worst fears and so doing the company is actually taking on local media reports and saying, that they have in some cases spun it out of proportion saying in a statement to cnn, we are deeply concerned that the proliferation of local media reports on an alleged trend not found on the platform could inspire real world harm. and this is just going to show how a lot of social media experts have warned that these narratives tha...

That started on tiktok. the department of homeland security said it has no evidence the posts are credible, but authorities are encouraging the public to remain alert. and paulo sand sea val and bria chung. talk about how it started and spread. >> at this point, based on information from authorities there is no intelligence that indicates this is a legitimate threat but when you step back this is caused some real wormt impact. you have some schools in minnesota and texas that decided to cancel c...

Seen before. so we need to focus on specific individuals than the idea of lot of people get radicalized by a mere cult violence. that is the history of radicalization. well juliette, i appreciate your expertise. thank you for taking time with us today. and thank you for being with us on friday. ill see you back here on monday. follow me on twitter at ana cabrera. i hope you have a great weekend. good friday afternoon, thanks for joining me here, im eric hill, richter and alisyn is off today. c...

Always going to be there and the social media platforms can show their concern for our children if they actually got more focused on the real radicalization that is going on online. >> one of the things tik tock mentions in the response is the concern that the media coverage characterizing this could unintentionally cause someone to do an act. >> there is this thing about copycats. it is not -- i think we overexaggerate it. the idea that someone that didnt have those thoughts before, or might no...