Iraqi TikTok celebrity Om Fahad at a football match in Basra, Iraq in January 2023. A gunman on a motorbike fatally shot her late Friday outside her home in Baghdad. An Iraqi TikTok star known to her followers as Om Fahad was fatally shot in a late-night attack outside her home in Baghdad, authorities said.
A lone assailant on a motorbike approached Fahad, whose legal name is Ghufran Sawadi, as she sat in a black SUV on Friday night. He fired shots inside the car before running off, according to security camera footage aired by Iraqi TV.Fahad became popular on TikTok with nearly half a million followers and videos of herself dancing to Iraqi music and showing her daily life.
Last year, the Iraqi government launched a campaign to clear social media content it said violated “morals and traditions.” A committee was established to scan social platforms for clips it deemed offensive. The government also created Balgh, an online platform where users could report content to be taken down.Fahad was among six Iraqi content creators last year to receive prison terms ranging from six months to two years for “offending morals and public decency.” Authorities opened investigations into eight other creators. Some were forced to apologize and take down their content.
The platform has sparked controversy in recent years for what officials call the “disintegration of the Iraqi social fabric.” The Communications Ministry in March
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