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In the second paragraph of the link you posted this is said:

> But in the wake of Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, conservatives have become hyper fixated on policing pro-Palestinian messages on the app, accusing TikTok of influencing young Americans to “support Hamas” and favoring pro-Palestinian content.

If you follow the link attached to "influencing young Americans", you'll find Palestine isn't mentioned once, but Hamas is.

Of course there's bias everywhere, and we should have by now ways to follows stories to their source automagically by now. But anyhow.

The article and the poll it is based on is wild. Questions like, "do you think all Palistinians are anti-Semitic or just the Hamas terrorists" and similar push poll style nonsense offering limiting answers to slanted questions.

However at least one question is about whether the attacks on Israel...

Can be justified by the grievance of Palestinians

So while most questions force them to pick sides between Hamas and Israel with no option to say they support Palestinians they do get at least one chance to say whether they think the Palestinian people have legitimate grievances (though still only in context of supporting an attack).

And the Intercept article is very clear when they link that they think Palestinian and Hamas support are being intentionally conflated, just as you've tried to do again here.