The story behind the Osama bin Laden videos on TikTok

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Osama bin Laden’s 2002 “Letter to America” resurfaced on TikTok in recent days, prompting the popular video platform to clamp down on accounts resharing it. Mazhar Ali Khan/AP

Mazhar Ali Khan/AP

TikTok says it has been “aggressively removing” hundreds of videos discussing a manifesto Osama bin Laden wrote in 2002 titled “Letter to America,” which somewhat mysteriously resurfaced on the platform in recent days.

Some TikTok creators shared the document in light of the Israel-Hamas war, highlighting bin Laden’s criticism of the U.S.

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