The investigation revealed that Tik Tok gets about 70 percent of the donations made through its application, to hundreds of families living in the Syrian camps.
Many displaced families appear in the Syrian camps, daily, in a live broadcast, begging viewers, to give them “virtual gifts”. They repeat phrases such as “like please, share please, gift please.”
The source says that the gifts they are asking for are “virtual”, but mean “real money”, and can be withdrawn for cash from the app.
Live viewers send gifts, symbolized by a fee, as a reward or “tipping” to content creators. These gifts range from digital roses worth a few cents to black and virtual universes worth up to $500.
The BBC’s investigation highlighted that more than 300 accounts are broadcasting live from the Syrian camps, adding that many of them reap up to $1,000 per hour as gifts, but the displaced families say they only get a “very small” part of the donors’ money. .
After further scrutiny of the donation process, the investigation team concluded that Tik Tok deducts 69 percent of the value of the “virtual gift,” and then, the remittance office deducts 10 percent for its services, and the “Tik Tok broker” charges 35 percent of the remaining money. .
The “Tik Tok Waseet” is the person who owns a phone and the Internet, and conducts a live broadcast with the displaced families for several hours a day.
With a simple math, the family that collected $106 in donations would end up with just $19.
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