Title: Perez Hilton Was Banned From TikTok. Why? - The New York Times
Headings: Perez Hilton vs. the Fan Armies
Perez Hilton vs. the Fan Armies
The celebrity blogger was banned from TikTok on Saturday in a move he said was influenced by the app’s biggest stars.

Content: I was getting death threats daily.” Mr. Hilton believes it was pressure from TikTok’s biggest stars that led to his ban, though the company disputed this. “We are deeply committed to maintaining a welcoming and supportive community environment. Our Community Guidelines apply to everyone and everything shared on TikTok, and we remove accounts that repeatedly violate our policies,” a TikTok spokesperson wrote in an email statement. Still, the ban set off alarm bells because influencer fans had been pushing for it — and young creators celebrated it. “ I don’t know, Perez, maybe it’s time for you to just go to Facebook or something,” said Tatayanna Mitchell, a TikToker with 4.5 million followers, in a TikTok video she posted on Sunday. “I think it was a good decision for him to be banned,” said Grace Honeycutt, 17, a TikToker with nearly 20,000 followers. “ He used his platform to just throw around drama which was not a good thing to use his platform for.” “Frankly, this is pretty disturbing to me,” Ben Goggin, a digital culture editor at Insider, tweeted on Saturday. “ Perez was and is a controversial media figure, but this feels like a dangerous step towards media censorship in favor of prioritizing the feelings of popular creators.”