NBC Runs Defense For TikTok Radicalizing With Osama Bin Laden Letter

After omitting the story on their morning and evening newscasts on Thursday, Friday was the day NBC’s Today finally decided that they should mention that the China-own social media platform TikTok had been promoting a letter written by late Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. But instead of piling on the criticism of the app used by the Chinese Communist Party to harm Americans, NBC senior Washington correspondent Hallie Jackson ran defense by parroting TikTok’s deflection to other platforms.

“It might sound stunning that a letter written two decades ago by a terror leader is now getting traction online in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war. But that is the reality with social media companies now scrambling to pull down those posts,” Jackson announced ahead of her report. After noting that the letter criticized “U.S. support for Israel and policies on Palestinian territories and citing anti-Semitic and homophobic tropes,” Jackson noted that the far-left, U.K.-based newspaper “The Guardian, which published the letter in 2002, removing it criticizing how it's been ‘widely shared without the full context.’” (…)

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