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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 that information to law enforcement. but in a world in which things get amplified, and can have a ph...

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 they've been good, they've been pushing back on the response saying we're a social media platform, we cater to teenagers for the most part or young people for most part and so we're trying to figure out what is going on. but also things can get, you know, sort of amplified and people in charge need to ...

For any evidence to substantiate the possibility of potential violence at schools and it said it can't 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 company's misinformation policy based on what they're hearing from law enforcement, and school officials, these tiktok warning videos are, you know, are not actually factually true and so the company is taking them down where it sees them. and that i...

Violence to carry out an attack, thereby making some -- fulfilling people's 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 that play out on technology platforms can end up leading to real world harm even if the actual substan...

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 crasses. you have law enforcement resources that are stretched to make sure that there is no threat. ...