President Biden’s campaign, eager to woo the 81-year-old candidate with younger voters, launched a TikTok account that posted a video titled “lol hey guys.”
In a 30-second debut video shown during Sunday’s Super Bowl, aides peppered a grinning Biden with questions about the big game, including “Are you playing the game or commercials?” And he said, “Jason Kelsey or Travis Kelsey?”
Mr. Biden, who was absent from formal interviews on game day, carefully avoided divisive sports-related questions and instead took jabs at bizarre Internet conspiracy theories about rigging Super Bowl III. I joked.
“You’ll get in trouble if you tell me.” Biden joked. Asked if there was an “attempt to rig” the lauded football event, he said:
“We will continue to meet voters where they are and create content that resonates with key audiences and core constituencies that make up the president’s diverse and broad coalition of voters,” Biden’s campaign advisers told the Post. We will innovate to create
“In a media ecosystem that is more fragmented and personalized than ever before, it is even more important that we get our message across every channel and every platform possible,” the president’s re-election campaign said.
TikTok has come under intense bipartisan scrutiny over its relationship with China. The company is owned by a subsidiary of Chinese tech company ByteDance.
Many critics have raised alarm over TikTok’s growing popularity in the United States, in light of China’s national security law that requires companies to fork data related to China’s national security.
However, late last month, TikTok CEO Xu Che insisted in the Senate that “the Chinese government has not asked us to provide any data, and we have never provided it.”
TikTok claims it is blocking U.S. data to allay national security concerns.
But detractors remain unsatisfied, with some saying: Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley It calls for a complete ban on short-form video social media platforms from the United States.
The Biden administration is also actively monitoring TikTok, with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States conducting an investigation related to privacy concerns.
Biden in 2022 signed a bipartisan bill Ban the use of TikTok on most government devices.
“We have advanced security measures in place around our devices and have built in advanced security protocols to ensure their safety,” Biden campaign advisers said in a statement.
“The existence of this campaign is independent and separate from the ongoing CFIUS review.”
Biden has previously courted TikTok influencers, interviewing creators such as: Daniel Mack The White House will host a Christmas party for internet influencers in December.
Last year, the Biden campaign joined former President Donald Trump’s Truth social platform.
The username for both accounts is “@bidenhq.”
