This is the real reason why the US wants to ban TikTok. A thread of videos that young people are watching and sharing by the millions
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The Guardian Deletes Osama bin Laden's 'Letter to America' After It Goes Viral on TikTok
The Guardian removed a 21-year-old letter from Osama Bin Laden after a TikToker urged followers to read the al Qaeda leader's missive.
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The Guardian Deletes Osama bin Laden’s ‘Letter to America’ After It Goes Viral on TikTok
The 21-year-old missive was widely shared “without its original context,” a spokesman for the British outlet says
Sharon Knolle
November 15, 2023 @ 6:29 PM
The Guardian made the unusual move Wednesday to delete a 21-year-old letter written by Osama bin Laden from their site after several TikTokers urged followers to read the al Qaeda leader’s missive, causing “Letter to America” to go viral on the social media platform.
Guardian readers are now met with the message, “This page previously displayed a document containing, in translation, the full text of Osama bin Laden’s ‘Letter to the American people,’ as reported in the Observer on Sunday 24 November 2002. The document, which was published here on the same day, was removed on 15 November 2023.”
In a statement to TheWrap, a spokesperson for the U.K. outlet said, “The transcript published on our website 20 years ago has been widely shared on social media without the full context. Therefore we have decided to take it down and direct readers to the news article that originally contextualized it instead.”
Among the takeaways people are discussing on TikTok: bin Laden’s statement that Sept. 11, 2001, happened because of America’s support of Israel. “They threw hundreds of thousands of soldiers against us and have formed an alliance with the Israelis to oppress us and occupy our land; that was the reason for our response on the eleventh,” the letter, which can easily be found elsewhere online, reads in part.
The TikTok trend seems to have started with a video posted by Lynnette Adkins, in which she told her nearly 12 million followers, “I need everyone to stop doing what they’re doing right now and go read ‘Letter to America,’ I feel like I’m going through an existential crisis right now.”
Responses from fellow TikTokers include “my eyes have been opened.” Another user who shared the letter wrote, wrote, “We’ve been lied to our entire lives, I remember watching people cheer when Osama was found and killed.”
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In one of her many follow-up videos, Adkins says, “TikTok is going to save this generation,” because older people are “programmed to think a certain way.”
Trending searches on TikTok included “Osama letter to America summary,” “a letter to America full text” and “a letter to America explained.”
Bin Laden’s resurfaced anti-Israel message comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed allegations that the country is committing war crimes in Gaza. The latest conflict in the Middle East ignited Oct. 7 following Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israeli civilians that left more than 1,400 dead.
Israel and Palestine supporters have clashed around the world in the month after the Hamas attack and Israel’s military response, including recently in Los Angeles, where a Jewish man died of the head injury he sustained during an alleged confrontation with a Palestinian proponent.
Several celebrities, including former United Nations Goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie, have called for a ceasefire in the region.
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its a chinese app , proves amerikka lawst already
TikTok ‘aggressively’ removing content praising Osama bin Laden after letter goes viral
The social media platform TikTok said it is “aggressively” removing content that praises Osama bin Laden’s 2002 “Letter to America.” The letter, published about a year after the Sept. 11, 2001, ter…
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TikTok ‘aggressively’ removing content praising Osama bin Laden after letter goes viral
BY LAUREN IRWIN - 11/16/23 4:54 PM ET
FILE – The TikTok logo is displayed on a smartphone screen, Sept. 28, 2020, in Tokyo. A federal judge is scheduled to hear arguments Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023, in a case filed by TikTok and five Montana content creators who want the court to block the state’s ban on the video sharing app before it takes effect Jan. 1. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)
The social media platform TikTok said it is “aggressively” removing content that praises Osama bin Laden’s 2002 “Letter to America.”
The letter, published about a year after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, was bin Laden’s attempt to justify the targeting and killing of American civilians. It has been recirculating online recently.
Bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces in 2011.
Many videos supported bin Laden’s argument and urged others to read the letter in the wake of the United States’s support for Israel in its war against Hamas.
“Content promoting this letter clearly violates our rules on supporting any form of terrorism,” TikTok Policy posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “We are proactively and aggressively removing this content and investigating how it got onto our platform.”
TikTok said the number of videos supporting bin Laden’s message is small, although some videos have reportedly received hundreds of thousands of views and thousands of likes.
“This is not unique to TikTok and has appeared across multiple platforms and the media,” the post said.
In the post, “the media” references frustration from users aimed at The Guardian, which released a statement Wednesday that it removed a “previously displayed document” that contained the translated version of bin Laden’s letter.
The news organization said it published the letter the same day that bin Laden released it — Nov. 24, 2002 — and removed it Wednesday after the transcript had been “widely shared on social media without the full context.”
“Therefore we decided to take it down and direct readers instead to the news article that originally contextualized it,” The Guardian’s statement said.
The letter is a critique of American foreign policy and contains antisemitic and violent language. It criticizes American support for Israel’s occupation of Palestine.
TikTok is an app that is widely popular with young Americans, many of whom were born after the 9/11 attacks.
A nationwide poll released Thursday by Quinnipiac University, found that among voters aged 18-34, sympathy for Israelis sank from last month. About half — 52 percent — of young voters said their sympathies lie more with the Palestinians, a significant reversal from an October poll when more said they supported Israelis than Palestinians.
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Studious one
Change names, like change clothes; stay a fly girl
This.This is all of social media sadly.Whole videos full of word salad
Folks be talking all these theories but don't be outside to see how that stuff would play out on the street.
Space Cowboy
Christ is King
Honestly the Bin Ladin stuff is a step too far for me. It's like reading the Unabomber manifesto and going,"he's got a good point!" Just kind of unhinged shyt and it's bad for Muslims now that this is trending because we disavow terrorism and this stuff is acting like such acts are ok.
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China won.
They planted the virus and now it spreaded all over the dam globe except for China since they banned Tik Tok
China won.
They planted the virus and now it spreaded all over the dam globe except for China since they banned Tik Tok
it's not banned in china, it's called Douyin.
