![]() ![]() ![]() Many twists and turns and legal challenges later, ByteDance has been negotiating with Oracle about storing its data in the U.S., and has not divested TikTok. DONALD TRUMP then issued an executive order that would ban TikTok if it didn’t sell itself to an American company. During the Trump administration, the Treasury Department’s Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. The delicate dance with the Chinese company comes amidst a recent Buzzfeed report that TikTok repeatedly accessed U.S. “We do not have any plans to give the Chinese Communist Party our data, nor do we plan to use their spyware,” said RNC spokesperson Nathan Brand. The Republican National Committee, meanwhile, does not have an account. KATIE PORTER (D-Calif.) talking about gun reform tallied 50,000 views as an Instagram reel versus the 163,000 views on TikTok. Earlier this month, the same short clip of Rep. TikTok was the most visited website in the world in 2021, even surpassing Google, according to Cloudflare, a cloud-infrastructure company that tracks internet traffic.Īnd the DNC’s TikTok videos regularly get more views than the committee’s Instagram videos. The White House also gave TikTok stars a briefing on the war in Ukraine, the Washington Post first reported in March. And the White House has participated in videos with creators like comedian BENNY DRAMA, the JONAS BROTHERS, and science guy BILL NYE - all of whom uploaded the TikToks to their own accounts with wide reach. JON OSSOFF (D-Ga.) have also joined TikTok. Other prominent Democrats like Georgia gubernatorial candidate STACEY ABRAMS and Sen. “We take additional precautions when developing content and communicating with voters through that medium, and advise campaigns to take similar precautions.”īut the use of TikTok by the DNC still represents an evolution in the larger attitude the party has adopted with respect to the platform. “The DNC’s privacy concerns with regard to TikTok remain unchanged,” said DANIEL WESSEL, the committee’s deputy communications director. It has dedicated devices for TikTok specifically that are isolated from “other DNC assets/processes/business as a mitigation to the privacy risk,” the committee said. The committee is taking security precautions. One way: the Democratic National Committee has set up a TikTok account after advising campaigns in 2020 to avoid the app. The app’s parent company, ByteDance, is based in Beijing and the administration has determined it shouldn’t be used on “White House and other federal government work equipment for security reasons,” according to an administration official.īut the White House - which has seen Biden’s approval rating among 18-to 34-year-olds dip significantly since he took office - is trying to find ways to reach the young TikTok audience without an account. Send tips | Subscribe here | Email Alex | Email Max ![]() Welcome to POLITICO’s West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration. ![]()
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