An influencer on TikTok gained widespread attention by endorsing Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to America.”
Pro-Palestinian activist and internet celebrity Lynette Adkins encouraged her more than 175,000 TikTok fans to read the words of the terrorist who planned the 9/11 attacks.
TikTok users have praised the text of an inflammatory “letter to America” written by 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden, and lawmakers in the US are criticizing the China-owned app for spreading “terrorist propaganda.”
The Los Angeles Times profiled social media influencer Lynette Adkins as one of the TikTok users promoting the letter.
In the video, Adkins urged her fans to “stop what they are doing right now and go read a letter to America.” It has garnered over 5,500 comments and nearly 100,000 likes.
TikTok influencers now telling people to read Osama Bin Laden’s “Letter to America” which starts by saying the Jews enslave the US.
This video had 80,000 likes and nearly one million views pic.twitter.com/mSQcqEm2Ev
— Drew Pavlou 柏乐志 🇦🇺🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@DrewPavlou) November 15, 2023Adkins continued with a number of other posts, one talking about “three movies to watch after you have read a letter to America.”.
In the letter, bin Laden said that the US “attacked us in Palestine,” which was why he planned the horrific attacks on the World Trade Center that killed almost 3,000 Americans.
Additionally, the terrorist called the establishment of Israel a “crime that must be erased.” On TikTok, her video garnered more than 80,000 likes and about 800,000 views.
The Unsettling Trend
The letter was removed by The Guardian after it had been published in full in 2002.
It was “widely shared on social media without the full context,” according to a statement by The Guardian. As a result, we have chosen to remove it and send readers to the news story that first provided context for it.”
The Guardian, which had posted bin Laden’s “Letter to America” in 2002 and was the top result when someone searched for the document on Google, quickly removed the letter in the midst of the sudden surge in social media traffic.
The entire text of bin Laden’s letter was shared on TikTok by user @Raeyreads, and it has amassed over a million views.
Adkins commended TikTok as a platform for trustworthy information consumption in a different video.
Over the past 24 hours, thousands of TikToks (at least) have been posted where people share how they just read Bin Laden’s infamous "Letter to America," in which he explained why he attacked the United States.
The TikToks are from people of all ages, races, ethnicities, and… pic.twitter.com/EwjiGtFEE3
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) November 16, 2023The voice of Osama Bin Laden, the most notorious terrorist in history, has returned from the dead as a result of the Israel-Hamas conflict.
Tik-Tokers have uncovered the ‘Letter to the American People,’ which was published twenty-one years ago, and, shockingly, they appear to agree with the despised, long-dead terrorist.
The Osama Letter videos went viral on all social media platforms after thousands of TikTok users created and shared their clips in a single day.
Also, after The Guardian took down the letter from its website, copies started making the rounds on social media.
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