Rachel Zegler is no longer on TikTok. That’s because the singer and actress, cast as Maria in Steven Spielberg’s upcoming adaptation of the iconic Broadway musical “West Side Story”, has deleted her account after discovering the social media app blocks certain hashtags from view, including #BlackLivesMatter and #GeorgeFloyd.
In a series of tweets, Zegler, 19, calls out TikTok for what she describes as the app’s “extremely apparent” racism, revealing she’s deleting her profile as well as “deleting the app altogether.” She also encouraged all her social media followers to do the same.
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