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TikTok ‘aggressively’ removing content praising Osama bin Laden after letter goes viral (thehill.com)

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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, 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…

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

For the record, it wasn’t even trending on TikTok until the moral panic started. Someone made a mashup of a few randos’ posts and that went viral on X. Then, every newspaper amplified that with silly rage bait articles for old people. Then, to make matters worse, the Guardian foolishly took the letter off their site and drew it even more attention.

So, the actual story isn’t that the kids were all supporting Al Qaeda. It’s that adults took some blue check grifter’s rage bait and turned into a whole media narrative that will probably now never die.