Followers of the global evangelical megachurch whose founder TB Joshua was accused of grooming and sexually abusing members have launched a wave of counter attacks against his victims, denouncing them as “blasphemous”, “mentally ill” and “perverted”.
The campaign spreading across YouTube, TikTok, Facebook and other platforms is part of a long and widespread pattern of abusive content broadcast by the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) and its followers that appears to violate the social media platforms’ terms, an investigation by openDemocracy can reveal.
In 2021, openDemocracy’s reporting led to YouTube suspending SCOAN’s main channel for violating its user guidelines due to broadcasts of anti-LGBTIQ hate speech. As a result, the ministry lost the ability to broadcast to its 1.8 million subscribers.
