Posted on 02/12/2024 9:15:23 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
President Joe Biden's campaign has joined TikTok, despite the app being banned on most US government devices over security concerns.
His campaign launched its account with the username "@bidenhq" during the Super Bowl on Sunday. In a launch video, captioned "lol hey guys", aides quizzed Mr Biden about his preferences for the big game. The president signed legislation in 2022 blocking most federal government devices from using TikTok. Several states have also adopted the measure. Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have called for the app - owned by Chinese company ByteDance - to be banned in the US over concerns the government in Beijing might be able to access user data.
Still, the site remains popular with young people in the US, a demographic that the White House is keen to energise for this November's election. Mr Biden's TikTok account will not be run by the president himself, but by his campaign team, aides told US media. Asked in the launch video if he was rooting for the Kansas City Chiefs or the San Francisco 49ers, Mr Biden said the Philadelphia Eagles, because otherwise "I'd be sleeping alone" as "my wife's a Philly girl". He was also asked about a Taylor Swift Super Bowl conspiracy theory that saw some claim the singer's relationship with Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce was part of a plot to rig the NFL's championship game and help get Mr Biden re-elected this November. "I'd get in trouble if I told you" about the conspiracy, Mr Biden joked.
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That ain't no joke. Biden often truthfully says he is not allowed to do this or say that. His handlers keep him in check. Some of the time.
about an hour ago, BBC TV had a lengthy segment with the following “nonpartisan”(?) Gen Z guy on the Tik Tok story.
Biden is such a “phenomenal” guy, to know him is to love him, etc etc. Gen Z love him.
31 July 2023: USA Today: Gen Z will be an unbeatable force in 2024 – if we stand up to the far right together
Not everyone wants my peers and me to have a say in our democratic process. That’s why I started Voters of Tomorrow, an organization with one mission: to harness the political power of young people.
by Santiago Mayer, Opinion contributor
(Santiago Mayer is the 21-year-old founder and executive director of Voters of Tomorrow, a nonpartisan organization that engages and represents Gen Z in politics and government.)
I moved here in 2017 from Mexico in the midst of the Trump administration’s xenophobic policies, including the travel ban from Muslim-majority countries...
Understanding the lack of political opportunities for young people, Voters of Tomorrow believes in welcoming everyone into the conversation. We believe that in order to reach Gen Z, you must center and prioritize Gen Z...
That is why, this week, we are bringing hundreds of young organizers together in Washington, D.C., to discuss the country we want to build. Instead of running on platforms that seek to instill fear and outrage into young people, we are offering a different vision. By including leaders from Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., the first Gen Z member of Congress, to North Carolina’s Anderson Clayton, the youngest state party chair, we want to show the far right that the majority of Gen Zers do not subscribe to their agenda. What’s more: We are joined by various champions for young people, including House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2023/07/29/gen-z-political-power-young-voters-2024-election/70458897007/
these people are organised.
as for Tik Tok, I’ve heard it reported on CGTN or elsewhere that BBC, ABC Australia, PBS have some kind of deals with Tik Tok, while UK, Australia & US govts have expressed deep concerns about the platform!
Youtube is now running ads promoting TikTok.
I have seen two different ads so far. One with a surgeon whose daughter committed suicide. He says he can reach millions on TikTok who might be considering suicide. The other opens with a Catholic nun but I clicked out of it before I heard her spiel for TikTok.
Disgraceful. Several federal agencies have banned this, and federal contractors are under regs to monitor it because it is chinese intelligence agency spyware.
>> President Joe Biden’s campaign has joined TikTok,
Yeah, there ya go... screw the headline. Biden’s CAMPAIGN joined TikTok.
Stand by for fake news.
(’Lol hey guys’ - Biden joins TikTok despite security concerns)
He must be getting really desperate for voters that don’t know his disastrous and abysmal record.
(Super Bowl conspiracy theory that saw some claim the singer’s relationship with Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce was part of a plot to rig the NFL’s championship game)
I don’t know if she was involved but I talked to a friend and we both think something was going on.
I saw part of it and it was ...... STRANGE.
I definitely avoided the halftime.
I don’t trust much of anything anymore.
Especially if there are large amounts of money 💰💰💰 involved.
Santiago Mayer is the 21-year-old founder and executive director of Voters of Tomorrow, a nonpartisan organization that engages and represents Gen Z in politics and government.
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Non-partisan my azz.
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