Facebook paid Republican strategy firm to malign TikTok - The Washington Post

3/30/2022 12:00:00 AM3 years 1 month ago
by Taylor Lorenz, Drew Harwell
by Taylor Lorenz, Drew Harwell
Targeted Victory pushed local operatives across the country to boost messages calling TikTok a threat to American children. “Dream would be to get stories with headlines like ‘From dances to danger,'" one campaign director said.
Employees with the firm, Targeted Victory, worked to undermine TikTok through a nationwide media and lobbying campaign portraying the fast-growing app, owned by the Beijing-based company ByteDance,as… [+10958 chars]
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