Hillary Clinton says young Americans are pro-Palestine as they watch ‘made up’ social media videos

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Former first lady Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday, December 2, that young Americans were becoming sympathetic toward Palestinians because they watch "totally made up" videos on social media of the horrors in Gaza.

Clinton made the remarks during a New York conference hosted by the Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom. She took a jab at social media platforms and said that more than half of young people in America get their news from social media.

Hillary Clinton on 'serious problem for democracy'

Hillary Clinton said during the conference, "Smart, well-educated, young people from our own country, from around the world, where were they getting their information? They were getting their information from social media, particularly TikTok."

"That is where they were learning about what happened on October 7th, what happened in the days, weeks, and months to follow. That’s a serious problem. It’s a serious problem for democracy, whether it’s Israel or the United States, and it’s a serious problem for our young people," she added. 

Moreover, Clinton mentioned that when she tried to talk to young people "to engage in some kind of reasonable discussion, it was very difficult because they did not know history, they had very little context, and what they were being told on social media was not just one-sided, it was pure propaganda."

She further claimed, "It’s not just the usual suspects. It’s a lot of young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand," adding, "A lot of the challenge is with younger people. More than 50 percent of young people in America get their news from social media." 

Clinton concluded her point, saying, "So just pause on that for a second. They are seeing short-form videos, some of them totally made up, some of them not at all representing what they claim to be showing, and that’s where they get their information."

Former Obama White House speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz made similar remarks last month. She said, "You have TikTok just smashing our young people’s brains all day long with video of carnage in Gaza. And this is why so many of us can’t have a sane conversation with younger Jews, because anything that we try to say to them, they’re hearing it through this wall of carnage."

Appeals court upholds $1M penalty against Trump over Hillary Clinton lawsuit

A federal appeals court dealt a blow to President Donald Trump's legal battles, upholding a nearly $1 million penalty against the POTUS and his attorney Alina Habba, for filing a lawsuit against Hillary Clinton.

The 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Trump and Habba committed "sanctionable conduct" as they pursued claims that the former First Lady and former FBI Director James Comey conspired to rig the 2016 election.

The panel, led by Chief Judge William Pryor, affirmed the lower court's decision that the lawsuit was an "abuse of judicial resources".

Judge Pryor did not mince words regarding the validity of the president's legal strategy. He wrote, "Many of Trump’s and Habba’s legal arguments were indeed frivolous", dismissing the attempt to revive the 2022 lawsuit.

Moreover, the panel agreed that the district court judge had properly considered Trump’s reported "pattern of misusing the courts" when levying the sanctions.