{"id":29215,"date":"2021-03-03T20:05:17","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T11:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/03\/tiktok-urged-take-action-myanmar-death-threat-videos"},"modified":"2021-03-03T20:05:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T11:05:17","slug":"tiktok-urged-to-take-action-over-myanmar-death-threat-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29215","title":{"rendered":"TikTok urged to take action over Myanmar death threat videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Videos posted to Chinese-owned site show men in military gear threatening to kill protesters<\/p>\n<p>TikTok has been urged to take action over a flood of videos shared in Myanmar that feature men in military uniform threatening to kill anti-coup protesters, at times while brandishing weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar\u2019s police and army have been widely condemned for using lethal force <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/mar\/02\/myanmar-police-fire-stun-grenades-at-protesters-ahead-of-regional-talks\">against peaceful protesters<\/a> who have held mass rallies over recent weeks calling for the return of democracy. More than 20 people have been killed since the military seized power on 1 February.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/03\/tiktok-urged-take-action-myanmar-death-threat-videos\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Videos posted to Chinese-owned site show men in military gear threatening to kill protestersTikTok has been urged to take action over a flood of videos shared in Myanmar that feature men in military uniform threatening to kill anti-coup protesters, at &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1885,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[919,59,238,82,80,235,61,58,1496,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aung-san-suu-kyi","category-global-development","category-media","category-myanmar","category-protest","category-social-media","category-south-and-central-asia","category-technology","category-tiktok","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1885"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29215"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29223,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29215\/revisions\/29223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}