Growing Calls to Ban TikTok After Osama Bin Laden Letter to America Goes Viral

A Republican lawmaker suggested that the U.S. ban social media app TikTok after videos showed people showing sympathy for a letter written by slain terrorist leader Osama bin Laden amid the Israel–Hamas conflict. The al-Qaeda leader sent a letter to the United States in 2002, months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that launched a U.S. war against Islamic terror group. He specifically made mention of the United States’ longstanding support of Israel, which drew praise from TikTok users in widely shared videos—with at least one person saying that bin Laden’s letter “was right.” In one video with about 1 million views, a TikTok user claimed that “everything we learned about the Middle East, 9/11, and ‘terrorism’ was a lie.” However, some on social media have criticized the trend and said al-Qaeda and bin Laden were, in part, responsible for the deaths of 3,000 Americans during the 2001 terrorist attacks....