Pro-Palestinian app Upscrolled tops charts, as users flee pro-Zionist TikTok

UpScrolled, the social media app set up by Palestinians was created to avoid the Israel lobby’s censorship-by-takeover of social media. Now, it is near the top of the app charts. This follows TikTok blocking all views of left-wing and anti-Zionist content.

The Israel-donating, billionaire Ellison family’s take-over of TikTok kicked in this week, after TikTok’s Chinese owners divested to prevent the app being banned in the US. It was the major app informing young people about Israel’s genocide and other crimes in Gaza and the West Bank. Videos posted by left-wing and anti-genocide accounts instantly fell to zero. Literally zero:

The suppression appears to be at an account level, not just specific posts. Content on Trump, ICE and other anti-fascist topics was also suppressed.

Some industry media reported the issue as a generalised TikTok outage preventing the sharing of all sorts of content. However, they were clear that it was an app-level issue, not an internet outage. In fact, only left-wing accounts on the platform appeared to be reporting it.

The silencing of anti-genocide voices saw UpScrolled surge to number two in the UK and US app charts and top four globally — higher than Ellison’s TikTok.

⚡️BREAKING:

UpScrolled reaches Top 4 most downloaded App across All Apps Chart.

UpScrolled is currently ranking as no. 2 in the U.S and UK for social media networking charts.

This follows censorship by social media and new ownership of TikTok.

The application was founded by… pic.twitter.com/778gWtZ6hf

— Suppressed News. (@SuppressedNws1) January 27, 2026

UpScrolled was created in 2025 by Australian-Palestinian Issam Hijazi to bypass widespread corporate censorship of Palestinian voices. promises transparency and fair access without the corporate interference of traditional social media apps and without, to quote its website, “political or commercial agendas” and:

censorship, shadowbans, hidden throttling, or pay-to-play favoritism.

In a 2025 panel discussion, Hijazi said that the Israel lobby understands that uncensored social media apps expose Israel’s “real face”:

They understand the real danger that TikTok has shown to the world, of showing the real face of Israel to the world, and now they want to control that, just like they control CNN, Fox News, etc.

They understand this [TikTok] is the new tool to control the brains of the young generation everywhere… at some point we won’t be able to speak out about anything that’s pro-Palestinian.

Download UpScrolled for Android here and Apple devices here. Don’t forget to follow Skwawkbox and the Canary on the app.

NB: No incentive was received for this article and UpScrolled did not request or influence it.

Featured image via the Issam Hijazi/ the Canary