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Today, Explained

Don't curl your lashes and talk about Uighurs on TikTok

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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TikTok, the video sharing app that has taken the tweens and 2019 by storm, is now facing stiff competition, concerns over censorship, and a federal investigation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

So last week the 17 year old girl named Faroza Aziz who lives in New Jersey posted on TikTok

0:12.9

a tutorial on how to get longer eyelashes.

0:16.1

Hi guys, I want to teach you guys how to get long lashes.

0:19.1

So the first thing you need to do is grab your lash color, curl your lashes obviously.

0:23.1

She starts by grabbing her eyelash curler and curling her lashes.

0:29.2

And then she says, then you're going to put them down and use your phone that you're

0:32.2

using right now to search up what's happening in China, how they're getting concentration

0:36.4

came throwing innocent Muslims in there separating their families from each other, kidnapping

0:40.7

them, murdering them, raping them, forcing them to eat poor, forcing them to drink, forcing

0:45.4

them to convert different religions if not or else they're going to, of course, get murdered.

0:50.2

Then she tweeted that she had been suspended from TikTok for a month.

0:57.1

It's just a black screen and it won't let me go on into that.

1:01.4

It says, due to multiple violations, your account is suspended.

1:06.1

So I can't even go on to it on my own phone.

1:11.6

Initially TikTok didn't say why they had removed the video and that led to a lot of speculation

1:17.8

that she must have offended the Chinese government man that she was essentially being censored

1:23.2

by them even though she's an American citizen.

1:26.2

It was right after I posted about the Uyghur so I thought it was very suspicious that right

1:30.6

when I speak about it on a Chinese app that it's taken down.

1:34.6

The company responded a little while later saying that she had used another one of her

1:40.5

accounts to post a comedic video that happened to include a picture of Osama Bin Laden and TikTok

1:48.0

said that it has a policy against imagery relating to terrorist figures.

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