This teen disguised a protest against China's treatment of a Muslim group as a makeup tutorial. She says TikTok censored her. They disagree
a spokesperson for TikTok denied that it had suspended Aziz based on her viral TikToks about Uyghur Muslims, saying that one of her previous accounts had been banned 10 days ago due to a TikTok she had uploaded featuring a poster of Osama bin Laden. The spokesperson said that the image of bin Laden triggered TikTok’s system as identifying it as terrorist-related content, leading to Aziz’s device being banned from posting on TikTok.
“As a Muslim-American growing up in a country that ridicules me … I’ve been told, ‘Why don’t you go marry a terrorist, you’re a terrorist yourself,” she says. “So I thought OK, I’ll make a TikTok of me saying a terrorist is cute. Obviously I’m joking about that … but it’s taken down, it’s taken out of context, and I didn’t mean for it to be taken out of context at all like that.”
When asked whether TikTok generally censors content that is critical of the Chinese government, the spokesperson denied this, saying in a statement that the app “does not remove content based on sensitivities related to China.” Yet TikTok has recently come under fire from the U.S. government, which has deemed it a potential security risk. It is currently, which assesses corporate acquisitions by foreign companies.
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