A pair of female Republican senators are demanding documents from TikTok after the social media company censored champions of women’s sports and designated their posts “hate speech.”
On Wednesday, Sens. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee and Joni Ernst of Iowa sent a letter to TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew outlining the company’s double standards related to the promotion of “woke advertisements” such as ads “promoting transgender surgery for minors.”
“The sponsored content shows a teenage girl who recently had a double mastectomy, exposing her surgery in graphic detail,” senators explained. “TikTok allowing this advertisement to run on minors’ feeds is the height of hypocrisy from a platform that suppresses conservative speech while profiting from leftist propaganda.”
Just two months earlier, a post from former college swimmer Riley Gaines was removed from TikTok because it allegedly violated “hate speech” requirements. The video published by Gaines featured the swimmer-turned-author-commentator silently eating cereal while watching an individual explain her transgender identity with a diversity word salad.
“The video was then reinstated on Sunday after Fox News Digital reached out for a comment,” the network reported. “TikTok did not respond to questions about why the video was originally removed.”
Sens. Blackburn and Ernst cited the episode of censorship in their Wednesday letter to TikTok and also asked the company to explain why a Denver-based athletics brand that supports women’s sports was banned from advertising this summer. Jennifer Sey, the founder of XX-XY Athletics, published the ad on X that supposedly resulted in her
