First appearance on Fox: Former President Trump’s super PAC launches @MAGA TikTok. This is the first group associated with the presumptive Republican presidential candidate to join the video-sharing social media platform, Fox News Digital has revealed.
Make America Great Again Inc. (MAGA Inc.) launches @MAGA, PAC officials say Fox News Digital TikTok will deliver Trump campaign messages, rapid response and content supporting Trump’s 2024 campaign He said that it will become a new social media means to do so.
“With millions of voters on TikTok, @MAGA delivers President Donald J. Trump’s pro-freedom, pro-American agenda with important facts and stories every day,” said Taylor Budowicz, CEO of MAGA. He told FOX News Digital.
TikTok faces a possible ban in the United States due to concerns about parent company ByteDance’s ties to the Chinese Communist Party. President Biden signed a bill that would force a ban on the app in the United States if TikTok cannot find a controlled owner outside of China. Trump himself has not joined the platform, but he opposes a potential ban.
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“We’re not trying to set policy, we’re trying to win elections,” Budowicz said. “Big tech companies, including Google and Facebook, are actively interfering with our elections. This is an unfortunate reality.”
A split photo of former US President Donald Trump taken in Palm Beach, Florida, on November 15, 2022, and the TikTok logo displayed on a mobile phone in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China, on November 29, 2022. (Joe Radl/Getty Images/CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
But Budowicz said, “We will not cede any platform to the Democrats who are trying to destroy Joe Biden and our country.”
“We will ensure that President Trump’s America First philosophy is carried across the internet and into every jurisdiction of this country,” Budowicz said.
The PAC’s first TikTok focused on the economy under President Biden, saying the economy would be “booming” if Trump were elected. The other is directed at Robert F. Kennedy Jr., calling out his record and past support for Democrats such as Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama.
MAGA Inc. is already active on X, formerly known as Twitter. MAGA Inc. has been using the @MAGAIncWarRoom account on the platform to post opposition research and rapid response since the Republican primary and will continue into the general election.
President Biden is not on TikTok, but he is not allowed to use the app on government devices due to national security concerns. The Biden campaign has an account.
Former US President Donald Trump during the F1 Miami Grand Prix at the Miami International Autodrome on May 5, 2024 in Miami, USA. (Song Haiyuan/MB Media/Getty Images)
TikTok and its parent company ByteDance filed a lawsuit in federal court earlier this week seeking to block a new U.S. law that would require the sale of social media platforms to companies with no ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
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The bill, passed by both houses of Congress and signed into law by Biden last month, would require China-based ByteDance to sell the app or be banned from selling it in the United States. There is.
Lawmakers have accused the platform of being a risk to U.S. national security, harvesting user data and spreading propaganda.
TikTok’s lawsuit points to the Chinese government’s own demands on TikTok and argues that such a sale could not occur.
The lawsuit states that the sale is “completely impossible because it is commercially, technically and legally impossible… By the end of the day, TikTok will be forced to shut down, silencing the 170 million Americans who use it.” It’s a platform that allows people to communicate in a way that no one else can. ”
Crucial to ByteDance’s argument is that the Chinese government has “made clear that it will not allow the sale of its recommendation engine, which is key to TikTok’s success in the United States.”
President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event at Pullman Yards on March 9, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Megan Varner/Getty Images)
The lawsuit also states that TikTok has already spent $2 billion on efforts to protect the data of TikTok’s approximately 170 million U.S. users.
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TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew hinted at a legal battle late last month.
“Rest assured, we’re not going anywhere,” CEO Shou Zi Chew said in a video posted shortly after. Mr. Biden signed the bill. “The facts and the Constitution are on our side, and we look forward to winning again.”
Despite the new law, the Biden campaign said it will continue to use video-sharing platforms.
