Drew Harwell on Nostr: New reporting on the bin Laden "Letter to America": * Hashtag was on 274 TikTok ...
New reporting on the bin Laden "Letter to America":
* Hashtag was on 274 TikTok videos with 1.8 million views on Tues/Weds. (#skincare videos get 252 million views in a day.) Not viral, marginal. Until ...
* X thread compilation, now with 30M views, made it blow up
* Guardian removal backfired; npub17u8kslmgpfgzzyq07cxcjzfc3mxt0ta4dqwwz6v0f4umhu4z0w4svyuhnv (npub17u8…uhnv) said it turned “the long-public ravings of a terrorist into forbidden knowledge"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2023/11/16/guardian-osama-bin-laden-letter-to-america/
* Hashtag was on 274 TikTok videos with 1.8 million views on Tues/Weds. (#skincare videos get 252 million views in a day.) Not viral, marginal. Until ...
* X thread compilation, now with 30M views, made it blow up
* Guardian removal backfired; npub17u8kslmgpfgzzyq07cxcjzfc3mxt0ta4dqwwz6v0f4umhu4z0w4svyuhnv (npub17u8…uhnv) said it turned “the long-public ravings of a terrorist into forbidden knowledge"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2023/11/16/guardian-osama-bin-laden-letter-to-america/