Facebook funded anti-TikTok campaign through GOP firm
by Makena Kelly from The Verge - All Posts on (#5XNSG)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook's parent company, Meta, has been paying one of the most prominent Republican consulting firms to run a nationwide campaign to sow distrust about one of the company's top competitors, TikTok, according to a new report from The Washington Post on Wednesday.
The firm, Targeted Victory, reportedly planted op-eds and letters to the editor in major local and regional newspapers across the country. A Targeted Victory director told staff that the firm needed to get the message out that while Meta is the current punching bag, TikTok is the real threat especially as a foreign owned app that is #1 in sharing data that young teens are using," according to emails obtained by The Post.
TikTok is the real threat"
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