After National Outrage, TikTok Is ‘Aggressively’ Scrubbing Viral Videos Sympathizing With Osama bin Laden’s ‘Letter to America’

The TikTok craze comes as new data show the number of adults regularly getting news from the app has quadrupled since 2020.

AP/Mazhar Ali Khan, file
Osama bin Laden in 1998 at a news conference at Khost, Afghanistan. AP/Mazhar Ali Khan, file

After national backlash, video sharing app TikTok is trying to scrub a wave of viral videos sympathizing with Osama bin Laden’s rationale for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. 

TikTok is also claiming that the posts are not trending, despite the videos generating 13.9 million views, Forbes reports. 

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