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• Vox Sara Morrison on x

  TikTok is accused of censoring anti-Chinese government content, again

• @x_feroza Feroza.X on x

  UPDATE: tik tok has issued a public apology and gave me my account back. Do I believe they took it away because of a unrelated satirical video that was deleted on a previous deleted account of mine? Right after I finished posting a 3 part video about the Uyghurs? No. pic.twitter.…

• @drewharwell Drew Harwell on x

  One overlooked aspect: TikTok banned a teenager for posting “terrorist content.” This is that content: A joke video with half a second of Osama bin Laden's face. @x_feroza said, “That was me making a joke to cope with the racism” she faces as a Muslim girl https://www.washingtonp…

• @drewharwell Drew Harwell on x

  The timeline: Nov. 15: She posts video including bin Laden. Has account banned. Starts new account. Nov. 23: She posts videos about detention camps in China, which go viral. Nov. 25: Her phone is banned. But TikTok says it's related to the Nov. 15 video, not viral criticism

• @staska Stasys Bielinis on x

  5. Banning device which recently created multiple accounts on your social media service, one of which was banned after our limited smartness AI detected possibly terrorist content is a no brainer next step 6. Looks like what happened with TikTok here: https://www.techmeme.com/...

• @gissounia Gissou Nia on x

  Yeah... not really buying that TikTok took her account down cause of her Osama bin Laden content. The timing seems suspicious 🤔 Regardless I am glad her Uighur content has new life on other people's active accounts 😭

• @tonyromm Tony Romm on x

  NEW: TikTok admits error after penalizing 17-year-old user who posted political videos. TikTok reverses device plan, plans internal review, and revealed new takedown stats — but the teen says the timeline suggests censorship. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

• @waqas_x Waqas on x

  TikTok has behaved surprisingly well and much more transparently than Fb or Twitter regarding that eyelash curler video issue: https://newsroom.tiktok.com/ ...

• @drewharwell Drew Harwell on x

  New: TikTok says sorry, admits some fault re: removing viral video about China's detention camps. But @x_feroza isn't convinced: “TikTok is trying to cover up this whole mess. I won't let them get away with this” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... @TonyRomm

• @dpanjana Deepanjana on x

  It doesn't seem straightforward. Look: “There's a trend on TikTok where you post like, ‘The type of boys or girls I liked when I was little,’” Aziz said. “Mine was like, ‘I liked a lot of white guys, but now I like brown people’ and at the end was [bin Laden] as a joke.”

• @sane_kale San kale on x

  Watch the video featuring Osama bin Laden that TikTok says it suspended a teen over after her other video criticizing China went viral http://dlvr.it/RKGKyW via alternativemedia pic.twitter.com/ZMJckMVc6u

• @hadas_gold Hadas Gold on x

  Wow. “TikTok also acknowledged that her video about China had been removed for 50 minutes on Wednesday morning, which it attributed to a “human moderation error.” https://twitter.com/...

• @drewharwell Drew Harwell on x

  New: @x_feroza's TikTok video about China's detention camps went viral (https://www.tiktok.com/...). Then she saw this: “Your account is temporarily suspended.” It's “just another reason for me to speak louder,” the 17-year-old said https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twi…

• @yaqiu @yaqiu on x

  Honestly, temporarily freezing her account while still allowing the video to circulate not only did little to stop the spread of the info but also provoked the user, a mistake a company so experienced in political censorship is unlikely to make. Thoughts? https://www.washingtonpo…

• @mariamamini Mariam on x

  Afghan American teen's strategic TikTok video about China's Muslim internment camps goes viral. Resulting in China banning Feroza Aziz's (@x_feroza 🇦🇫🇺🇸) TikTok account. #Muslims #Xinjiang https://www.bbc.com/...

• @bewaterhkg Hong Kong on x

  The situation of the Muslims in #China should also be highlighted: The post appears to be about beauty tips at its start - but the young woman then changes tack to ask her viewers to raise awareness of what she describes as “another Holocaust” https://www.bbc.com/... https://twit…

• @woppa1woppa Woppa on x

  “TikTok does not moderate content due to political sensitivities” Also... “The company had permanently banned one of Ms Aziz's old TikTok accounts for breaking its rules on terrorism-related material” Also... “It had then blocked her smartphone” https://www.bbc.com/...

• @sarahfrier Sarah Frier on x

  I haven't (yet) seen the terrorism video so can't verify. Either way, the timing (that TikTok took action on someone who posted a video China wouldn't like) has raised Qs. “TikTok does not moderate content due to political sensitivities,” spokeswoman says.

• @sarahfrier Sarah Frier on x

  So what happened? Tiktok says she had a previous account that posted a video of Osama Bin Laden, which was against the rules so TikTok suspended her account and blocked the device associated with it, which is why she couldn't get in to this new account, which is still up.

• @sarahfrier Sarah Frier on x

  Big test case for TikTok & censorship. The person who made the viral eyelash curling video that was actually about China's prison camps for Muslims was blocked from accessing TikTok on her device. But the video is still up: https://www.tiktok.com/...

• @joshelman Josh Elman on x

  A good thorough explanation of an issue that became a hot button so darn quickly https://newsroom.tiktok.com/ ...

• @jerrycap @jerrycap on x

  Not good enough. We demand a distressed $FB acquisition. https://twitter.com/...

• @wongmjane Jane Manchun Wong on x

  It just seems TikTok has it easier than Facebook when it comes to public opinion and the press https://www.reuters.com/...