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Christian Datoc, White House Reporter


NextImg:White House denounces TikTok users lionizing Osama bin Laden

The White House forcefully denounced Thursday a growing number of American TikTok users voicing support for the ideas outlined in Osama bin Laden's "Letter to America."

Dozens of TikTok accounts have circulated the letter, which the former al Qaeda leader published in 2002 as a means of justifying the 9/11 terror attacks, this month. Videos of the trend have garnered nearly 15 million views on TikTok as of Thursday.

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"There is never a justification for spreading the repugnant, evil, and antisemitic lies that the leader of al Qaeda issued just after committing the worst terrorist attack in American history – highlighting them as his direct motivation for murdering 2,977 innocent Americans," White House spokesman Andrew Bates said of the videos.

"No one should ever insult the 2,977 American families still mourning loved ones by associating themselves with the vile words of Osama bin Laden," he continued, "particularly now, at a time of rising antisemitic violence in the world, and just after Hamas terrorists carried out the worst slaughter of the Jewish people since the Holocaust in the name of the same conspiracy theories."

In one now-deleted video, which previously recorded more than 1.6 million views, a TikTok user asked other users, "If you have read it, let me know if you are also going through an existential crisis because in the last 20 minutes, my entire viewpoint on the entire life I have believed, and I have lived, has changed."

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"If we’re going to call Osama bin Laden a terrorist, so is the American government,” a TikTok user claimed in a separate video that had earned more than 100,000 views.

TikTok itself also denounced the videos Thursday but claimed that "reports of it trending on our platform are inaccurate."