America is waking up to what India realised in June 2020. TikTok is much more than just a cringefest factory. It’s a threat to national security. How? Many Americans have been making TikTok reels fawning over a letter that was written in the aftermath of 9/11, the four coordinated Islamist suicide terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001. The author of the letter was the mastermind of 9/11, Osama Bin Laden. The immediate context of the letter going viral is Israel’s war on Hamas. The reels in question ask that everyone should read the letter because it is ‘eye opening’, or it shows their ‘existential crisis’, or helps ‘it all make sense’ or shows why ‘he was right’. In case it needed spelling out, the people making these reels oppose Israel, to put it mildly. These 15-second viral clips, garnered about 12 million views before being removed. TikToks discussing the Bin Laden letter attempt to garner sympathy by emphasising various reasons mentioned
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