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Kick and TikTok said Hasan execution livestream would violate guidelines

Kick and TikTok said the feed would break their rules. YouTube, Meta, and Twitch did not say whether they would make a government exception.

By The Creator Wire Staff Published Oct. 9, 2026

Nidal Hasan, convicted of the 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood, is scheduled to die by firing squad on December 3 at 2 p.m. ET. An unnamed Pentagon official said yesterday that the execution would be livestreamed.

Kick spokesperson Audrey FitzGerald wrote that such a broadcast would violate the platform's rules. "If this was livestreamed on KICK, it would breach our Community Guidelines," she said in an email. Jamie Favazza, a spokesperson for TikTok's U.S. operations, pointed to policies that bar "shocking and graphic content," including "the moment of someone's death."

YouTube, Meta, Twitch, and X did not answer questions about whether they would host the stream. YouTube's harmful or dangerous content policy prohibits material that encourages dangerous or illegal activity that risks serious physical harm or death, and it bars livestreams that show someone holding or handling a firearm. Meta and Twitch publish similar bans on violent content involving death. None of the silent platforms said they would waive those rules for a U.S. government account.