Allies of President Biden have donated at least $10 million to counter the Trump campaign’s heavy use of social media, according to a new report.
According to Reuters, leaders of Future Forward USA Action, a super PAC fighting for Biden’s reelection, are concerned that the president is losing the viral video war to Trump and his allies, who for weeks have been posting social media videos of Biden appearing frozen and old in public.
The Democratic super PAC boasts backers such as Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman. The effort aims to help the Biden campaign understand how social media algorithms work as well as work with pro-Biden influencers.
“Future Forward is there to help solve a problem. TikTok is a problem and the group is trying to solve that problem,” a Democratic official told Reuters.
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Since the Biden campaign officially joined the platform in February, it has posted more than 200 times and has just over 380,000 followers. Trump joined TikTok just two weeks ago but has already amassed 6.4 million followers.
Meanwhile, the Republican National Committee has been pivoting to the issue of Biden’s age, sharing footage that shows him frozen and confused in public.
The White House has denounced the footage as “cheap fakes,” but there is little evidence that the footage was deceptively altered.
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Since the Biden campaign officially joined the platform in February, it has posted more than 200 times and amassed just over 380,000 followers. Trump joined TikTok just two weeks ago but has already amassed 6.4 million followers. (Felipe Ramares for Fox News Digital)
The “cheap fake” excuse has proven to be the White House’s main defense against Biden’s embarrassing videos in recent weeks.
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The term was used in several news articles. Early 2019But the numbers have increased significantly this week, sparked by a video of Biden on social media.
But not everyone believes this explanation: It’s all part of “campaign slogans and buzzwords,” according to Jake Denton, a technology researcher at the Heritage Foundation.
The “cheap fake” excuse has proven to be the White House’s main defense against Biden’s embarrassing videos in recent weeks. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
“It’s pretty clear what’s going on here,” Denton told Fox News Digital. “They’re trying to open a new semester with school orders. Misinformation We are pressuring social media companies to take action against these types of videos.”
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“This requires you to go through the stages of claiming that something is ‘cheap fake’ or that there is some malice involved in the misinformation, and then you need evidence, fact patterns, etc. to make takedown requests to social media companies because it’s election misinformation. To me, that’s kind of the seed that’s being sown here.”
Reuters contributed to this report.
