social media Giant dead owner of Trademarks like Facebook and Instagram, the motivation was force behind a media campaign in The United States that targeted TikTok, one of Its biggest competitor, according to a report published Wednesday.
The campaignwhich was revealed by the Washington Post and confirmed in part by Agence France-Presse, reportedly involving the status of messages in United States Home news Media and promoting negative stories about TikTok, allegedly using Type of harsh tactics Familiar to Washington politics.
dead, that drops hundreds of billions in The value of this earlier year Because of his doubts futureHe is in pitched fight against Popular video sharing platform with young social media fans.
“We believe that all platforms, including TikTok, should face level of consistent scrutiny with Their growth is their success, Mita told AFP. in A one-line statement in In response to the article.
Consulting firm Targeted Victory confirmed that it has worked for Dead and did not deny its existence forward Negation information About TikTok. “She was proud of The work We did to highlight the dangers of TikTok,” CEO Zack Moffat tweeted.
Employees at Targeted Victory have undermined TikTok, which is owned by Chinese company ByteDance, by promoting an effort to portray it as danger For America’s Children, The Post reported, citing internal company emails.
The Washington Post quotes one Message that the target victory needs to ‘Get the message out So while the Meta is a file current Boxing bag, TikTok is real Threat especially as a foreign-owned app is #1 in data sharing young teens using. “
One effort reportedly included obtaining parents to sign on On letters raising concerns that were delivered to American newspapers, some of them of that you posted.
Target victory also alerted elected Officials and journalists for alleged trends on TikTok that encouraged students to vandalize their school premises, known as “cheeky licking” or “teacher slap” challenge.
The “challenge” urge young users attack did the teachers start on TikTok, but on Facebook, according to an investigation by its “Reply All” podcast, with The investigator is unable to find any videos on This subject on tik tok
We are deep concerned that kindling of Sweetened media Reports on Alleged trends that were not found on can the platform cause real world Tik Tok told AFP in a permit.
Moffat, CEO of Targeted Victory, also He argued that the Post article “mischaracterizes a file work We do,” citing examples including characterization of people who Sign letters sent to newspapers.
“The story conclude that the words of Messages sent to the editor were not from the authors, nor were they know of dead involvement. it’s a falsehe tweeted.
When I called AFP, the people He cited the signature on the latters and did not respond to requests for comment.
