TikTok suspended the account of the Acton Institute after the libertarian think tank promoted multiple videos about Hong Kong pro-democracy icon Jimmy Lai and the Chinese Communist Party’s crackdown in the city, one of which racked up 2.3 million views. The suspension follows the temporary removal of a video that featured a former senior State Department official.
Acton’s director of communication and marketing, Eric Kohn, said on Twitter today that the suspension came yesterday “without notice or explanation.”