US EditionTikTok Competitor UpScrolled Hits No. 1 On App Store Following Allegations TikTok Suppresses Anti-ICE Videos
UpScrolled, founded by Issam Hijazi, topped Apple’s U.S. social app charts with over 1 million users amid concerns TikTok censors pro-Palestinian and anti-ICE content.
- On January 29, 2026, UpScrolled reached number one in Apple’s App Store in the US and the UK, with Sensor Tower estimating about 400,000 US downloads and 700,000 globally after TikTok’s U.S. sale last week.
- Spooked by last week’s sale of TikTok, users rushed to alternatives after TikTok’s U.S. operations were sold to an investor group led by Larry Ellison, fueling fears of censoring pro-Palestine content and shadow-banning claims.
- Launched last year by Issam Hijazi, founder of UpScrolled, the app promotes a chronological feed with limited moderation, backed by Tech for Palestine, and surpassed 1 million users from 150,000 days earlier.
- Server overloads and glitches forced UpScrolled to fix bugs and expand moderation after crashes, while TikTok blamed a U.S. data-center power outage for posting delays amid bans like Bisan Owda’s.
- UpScrolled’s surge exposes tensions between free‑speech promises and hate content as it challenges dominant platforms amid antisemitic posts flooding the app, while CyberWell reports half of such content is removed compared to TikTok’s nearly 90%.
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TikTok Competitor UpScrolled Hits No. 1 On App Store Following Allegations TikTok Suppresses Anti-ICE Videos
UpScrolled, a new social media platform that says it does not shadowban or censor users, ranks No. 1 on Apple’s U.S. app store as of Thursday—much higher than competitor TikTok, which is No. 27.
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