Internal emails seen by The Washington Post reportedly show employees of Targeted Victory plotting to use the media and a lobbying campaign to turn parents against TikTok
Facebook’s parent company has been paying a Republican consulting firm to sow panic and distrust of rival social platform TikTok, according toreportedly show employees of Targeted Victory plotting to use the media and a lobbying campaign to turn parents against the popular Chinese-owned app.
Employees of the consulting firm were urged to “get the message out that while Meta is the current punching bag, TikTok is the real threat especially as a foreign owned app that is #1 in sharing data that young teens are using” in one email from a director in February, thereports. Another director is said to have floated the idea of using a local political reporter as a “backchannel” for spreading opposition to TikTok in a different email.
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