TikTok has blasted users promoting a vile letter written by Osama Bin Laden in regards to the 9/11 atrocities and promised to remove any content referring to it.
‘Content promoting this letter clearly violates our rules on supporting any form of terrorism,’ TikTokPolicy wrote in a post to X, formerly Twitter.
‘We are proactively and aggressively removing this content and investigating how it got onto our platform.’
The video-sharing platform claims the number of videos on TikTok is ‘small’ and ‘reports of it trending [on the] platform is inaccurate.’
‘This is not unique to TikTok and has appeared across multiple platforms and the media,’ the post added.
Bin Laden, who founded terror group Al-Qaeda with the aim of waging holy war on the western world, wrote a ‘Letter to America’ in 2002 to defend the motivation behind his murderous attack on mainland America that killed thousands of innocent people.
In the viral letter, bin Laden spews anti-American, anti-Semitic and anti-Western viewpoints, citing one of the main reasons for 9/11 being the US support for Israel.
At the time of writing, videos with the hashtag ‘LettertoAmerica’ have been viewed 7.3 million times.
Extraordinarily the majority are claiming support for the twisted reasoning Bin Laden lays out without a thought for the freedoms he criticizes.
The letter began to gain traction online after UK newspaper The Guardian linked to a 2002 article which translated it in full in a piece about the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.
Hellbound and Down 