"The content promoted by this letter clearly violates our rules, which prohibit support for all forms of terrorism: we are proactively and decisively removing this content and investigating how it got to our platform." This was stated by a Tik Tok spokesperson regarding the dissemination of the "Letter to America" dating back over 20 years but recently going viral on social media, and in particular on the Chinese app, in conjunction with the new bloody conflict between Israel and Hamas underway in the Middle East.
"The number of videos on TikTok is small and the reports that this is a trend on the platform are inaccurate, and this is not unique to TikTok," the spokesperson said, denouncing the publication of the letter on several other platforms as well.
The British newspaper The Guardian removed the letter from its website. "The transcript published on our website was widely shared on social media without the full context, so we decided to remove it and direct readers to the article that contextualized it," the newspaper said after deleting the text that came under accusation.
The claim that the United States was attacked on September 11, 2001 with Al Qaeda attacks because of its support for Israel is controversial. The White House has harshly criticized the online phenomenon, and TikTok has said it is taking steps to remove posts that contain references to the letter.