In-depth: In Syria, displaced families are live streaming on TikTok begging viewers to give them 'virtual gifts', but a recent investigation by the BBC found that the social media platform is reaping the profits.
Barely conscious, 70-year-old Abbas yanks on the tube piping oxygen into his lungs. His son, Mohammad Haitham, leans down and gently tightens the dirty cotton strips that bind his father’s arms to the bed. The strips prevent Abbas from hitting himself or staff members when he convulses, Haitham says, or from pulling out the tube…